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  So many problem sets

  

  component of sphingomyelin, is part of the cellular lipid bilayer. For ... energy versus dihedral angle. d) What is the barrier to rotation around the ... pedigree [not pictured in this entry], which shows the inheritance of a very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  at night (which is not). The MCAT is curved multiple-choice knowledge ... pretty hard but found that the material on the test was not that ... and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  's just a place. Not all adventures are good. No place is a paradise. The ... call this paradise? Then again, there is no paradise except the one we ... I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... took the piece a bit too seriously - which is ironic since environmental

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about ... the application. My favorite spelling error on MIT applications is ... look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  Spending a lot of time in the Unified Lounge (Unified is a course 16 class ... speakers coming in thoroughout the week to cover disciplines that were not ... in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  separation, so the image quality is not nearly as good as with the polarized ... : Red/Green or Red/Blue Although the red/green or red/blue system is now ... Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  the waitlist? As I've said, the waitlist is not ranked. We will ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the ... achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  . Before your mind even goes there, Lauren is NOT EVEN a political science ... visit me in Harrisburg over winter break, which is the second time that ... picture. Here is the same beaver hiding in its dark underground beaver

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  questions, the first of which was: Having begun the reading, is the optional ... favor the applicants that did the optional essay? I personally did not do ... 've said, like I would have been) in not answering the "completely optional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  of your dorm -- it's not so hard to find the way out from here Park ... , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow ... relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  't colorful, but the rest are! 1) Ethernet Jack Burton-Conner is getting an ... surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an Ethernet jack in the hallway, um, why? Why is it there, why is it up by the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  mentioned did not accept women at the time of the poem's publication) The ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like to highlight the popularity of "Tech boys": When not "delighting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... problem sets. The 17.803 section also discusses why MIT right now is the ... are usually 12 units, but the poli sci lab is 15, and 24.191 is 6). Note

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian ... point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of ... being on the boat, so there's not really any reason not to go. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  is not that I myself am not the gender I've been assuming for the past ... that his is actually not three letters and consists of some combination ... 2008 is very tempting.) The only advice I can give you regarding

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the ... was afraid that the 500 word essays would not completely get across who ... , I was not the most fun person from the months of January to March of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  ='In general, we think it is important that the MIT education does not simply and ... the specific needs of, and goals for, an MIT education, and is not ... not, nor is it clear if or when it will be. However, the [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  focus for this class is infrastructure projects, the keystone of civil ... course is to do a case study of the evaluation process of a major ... class is about design. Over the years, my classes have gotten less

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011