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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... role model and still is to this day. Working in my lab gave me a sense of ... to focus on research in a way that was not possible as an undergrad (I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  , very fortunate that this is even a choice I get to make. Two: At MIT ... becomes pleasure, but often you have to grit your teeth for a long time ... and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that ... class, he offered to schedule a meeting with me later in the week to ... summarized in a slightly-trimmed-to-500x23 screenshot: ...Err, yes. And, just

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this ... stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a little-known fact that we in admissions get as excited about cool projects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  we're proud of you for getting to this point in a tough year. And with ... school"]was willing to bet my right kidney[/annotation] I would not get in ... I don't want to paint getting deferred as a purely negative or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... get in to, like video games, but I doubt that I will, because even if I ... In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  to take me in on very short notice. Eventually, I did make it back to ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the ... who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to ... -Center. There's a bunch of stuff I want to check out in the 5:00PM - 8:00PM slot ... Boston, so your money goes to a good cause. (Feel free to download my band

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and ... for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest. Your application will be ... become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  was a completely opened ended opportunity to design your own printed ... these components be positioned on your actual board? I had to keep in mind ... of this blog to see what others in this class created!) Step 1: Design

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... decided to let her "write" this entry in some sense -- I asked her a few ... sister moved up to Boston with me and I did a project in microfluidics

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you ... (“Hey, baby, can I be your derivative?”) won't be as successful in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to ... as long as the telethon lasts, to answer questions in the comments, and ... Ok Early Action accepted students (AKA prefrosh), stay by your phones

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  'll update the freshman class profile page closer to Registration Day. Here's a ... admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  in a while you may want to discard specific cards to trigger other cards, but it's rarely useful for you to discard all the cards in your hand. even if you're trying to win by drawing all the cards in your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Association. In addition to photography classes (I usually take one a term), the ... (I won’t get into that in this post). To the right is an enlarger—you use this to blow up your negatives into a viewable size. On the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... year program resulting in a Bachelor of Science (BS) or a Bachelor of ... undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  ethanol sometimes has a small amount of methanol mixed in specifically to ... media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... "] SDS [/annotation] suggests that it’s “not expected to present a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021