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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  , there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do not have a definitive date and time when letters will be mailed, but it will be around the same time as the decisions are posted online. Because

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry ... students had to build cars that lifted these foam blocks that would be ... case is to learn a lot about the design process and what it takes to be a

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  conversation I had with my grandpa before I left for MIT: Gramps: "Now don't be a ... -grandchildren...yet." When I came to MIT, I was somewhat afraid of what relationships would be like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... demand curve will be at the socially optimal quantity (in this case ... supply perfectly elastic) should be at P=0 since Medlinks provided the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic ... DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach ball would be replaced with polymer. Once the microspheres are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  be offering their lessons. I actually became intrigued in ballroom ... ready to vie for the number one spot. Next Tuesday's lessons will be about 2.5 hours long, but we'll be learning two dances. The American Waltz

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 ... 'll start with the question that seems to be most prominent: what does it mean to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing right now, and also my post about interviewing. You may be interested to ... interview. When we see this, we know not to be too bummed when there's no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  QuestBridge Finalist and ranked MIT, your QuestBridge application will be ... to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... Bridge Finalist, you will be able to add the recommender information to your MIT
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other time that would be comparable to what I’m feeling now would be when I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 ... . But before my would-be opponent and I could find a suitable table ... ceiling, before the party ended and we had to walk home. I'll be ready to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y'know, being an ... to be fair, I also used to hate drinking coffee. Have I talked about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you ... doting quite flattering, to be honest, and it's been very sweet to see how ... despite being one of the biggest proponents of said rule, but let's not dig

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  meant to last for. Because I don't know what that next thing will be ... supposed to be, I'm just waiting. Sure, it's nice to feel excited about ... being recorded to be put on MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). Which means I need

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is ... friendships to be beautiful, I don’t even know what that means. I want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  it was due to the first two semesters being virtual. And sophomore year ... onto the next attack: cancelling plans. This part of being sick sucks, in some ways more than the actual act of being sick. I proceeded to text the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher ... . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... are now primarily research and TA-ing. Being a graduate TA is a new role

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  banished from his family and his homeland, will be welcomed back as the ... he’s been asked to be by his family and his nation, the parasite. While ... with stressors and temptations, like being welcomed back into the royal

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  ="aka being firehosed"]my MIT experience,[/annotation] so it reminded me of an ... would be like.[annotation note="abridged version of my original"]So I ... just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  . setting up a dev environment for software development can be tricky: it ... 20 questions a day but i can feel myself being more competent than last ... . everything seems to be great: i'm learning a lot from the internship, there

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019