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• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is a pretty good sign -- it means the department is excited about your ... a research project will help you get recommenders who know what you're

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  school rather than medical school: Grad schools pay for your airfare and ... . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... your own concern. (And, may I add, for those times when disaster strikes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  'm so and so and I read and comment on your blog all the time," I want to ... . I have no profound words of wisdom for you, but I truly hope you're ... this will give you a little inspiration as you work on supplementing your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  question...though you kinda took your time but all in all I really appreciate your answer. You play field hockey at MIT right? Did you contact a coach ... but unfortunately I think I'm going to be awful at answering your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  January or February, after your school's first semester grades are released ... @mit.edu. They're your best bet. Alex wrote, "In your opinion, is a 780 Math Level ... get english classes for 4 years ?" No. Especially considering your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  everywhere. If you can't find them, you're just dumb. Sometimes I think MIT ... hung up on the details of your test scores. Besides, most MIT students ... section C9 of that link). In any case, you never know unless you try! If you're

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  great idea, because that way you can get your MIT ID card, which has your ... . Number 88 is "Count your steps down the Infinite Corridor." So I figured ... front desk of the Z-Center, and you're done in about 30 seconds

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... show how you're doing in real-time. [...] Pentland has analysed nearly 60 ... form of "verbal body language", the vocal equivalent of crossing your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky ... -black polymeric complexes that stick in your reactor and prevent you from operating ... ... because you have to look and smell your best when you're researching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive ... clueless about college, so he was like "Well I don't get it, but I'm glad you're ... called Leash. You can use Leash to login with your Athena username and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  ... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your ... also don't realize it until you're an upperclassman, but most of the ... are worth your whole grade. So everybody does the problem sets.) It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  office(s) at your school(s) of choice with emails, letters, and phone calls ... ? like try to balance out the projected majors?" What you're thinking of ... your decision hinged on it, I'm sure the MIT people would ask your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... sort of comfort. Because those times likely will come—especially if you’re ... to your hometown to ground you. After all, college may take you far

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  process of building out your list of schools to which you will likely apply ... institution’s mission aligns with your own goals for the future, in addition to your questions about dormitories, dining halls and climbing walls.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  game, to someone to open your heart to despite whatever anxiety you feel ... minutes and immediately enter the state of high emotional tension that your ... good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  ']solar cycle.[/annotation] This is wild." "Sorry, but if you’re not an aurora chaser, you might wanna mute your channel for 8 hours." "We got a really ... next many years in the US!" "WOW GUYS you can see it with your bare eyes

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the ... decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... gig, to be honest. Your application will be read by a small committee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  he was obsessed with typeface. Like obsessed with fonts... If you're ... most people, you don't have to learn anything about your body for your

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  . “Why are you always dating these PhD types? You’re overindexing on ... say I can’t help but be myself. “You wear your heart on your sleeve

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit there, either in your research lab or your car on your morning commute or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022