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• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  which the objective is to lower a stick propped up by the index fingers of ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... know it (really.) Anyways, all this reminded me of all you Early Action

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  ://web.mit.edu/yourusername. Neither of these methods are foolproof, but they are good first checks ... represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions ... : underscores (david_h), numbers (david789), unpronounceable terminations of long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ... even read the first chapter of each textbook. Bring it, junior year

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle ... asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality instead. Actually ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  , bicycles, skateboards, scooters, and walking. My favorite method, and perhaps the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... , freshman Me walking across the Harvard Bridge in the dead of winter. More

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling, Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  ” award – Walking around is, in my opinion, the most enjoyable method of ... day. Did I mention that this is the free-est method of transportation ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  .  But the current method of launching space telescopes in single payloads ... artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  explorations of the first two volumes, maintaining its emphasis on methods of ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  us understand the underlying motivation for and method of conducting ... Engineering Fair in California Rishi S. '20, "A Novel Method of Reverse ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  Ed calls consilience." An example of two methods converging: in Viking ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... organizational method works for you. Oh, and did I mention it's also about having

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  —below is the index: [visually_hidden]Index of months of my gap year ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  real science true method of relaxation (source: none). At the bottom of ... True Method of Relaxation. Of course, some of these movies were awful and ... : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  drafted a new syllabus that melded a diverse set of topics and methods. We ... from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... none of my classmates understood what I was talking about or indeed had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  preferences of the royalty. Each group came up with their own method, some ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my ... of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  methods, which worked for most of my life but were kind of difficult in ... Sanderson’s dogma of steady progress, and V. E. Schwab’s method of always ... incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022