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  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  guest post series* Home Sweet Home I was not imagining coming home for the ... case study later, I was locked and loaded to return to Michigan for my summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... conference covers everything from computational models for describing human ... lasted for six very intense days. Each day, there were two different poster

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers ... formulas (for example, to determine the optimal size of government). For 17

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace ... progress, creates a ceiling of satisfaction for working women that they can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms ... . I wish I had taken 2.008: Design for Manufacturing instead, and maybe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... late night lab work for one of my last final projects. But we aren't here ... ) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of ... diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take ... session at 11am on Narcan administration for EMTs. I went straight to see

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... as some incarnation of death (?). I have no idea. But hooray for ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  York Times bestselling!) novelist who’s also written comics for Marvel ... medium for pretty much all of us. Most recently, we’ve been considering ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in ... for warmer weather! Even if that's not meant to be, NYC's food scene and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... got into his car. He set his GPS for Framingham, MA, slightly over ... for the existence of God, the evolution of ideas as time bypassed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into ... through a ceiling panel and hiding up there. Midnight: time for business

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  already here on the site -- for example, about standardized test ... include the MIT Supplemental Document Cover Sheet from MyMIT for any ... cover sheet will be fine, too, as long as there is enough information for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  site -- for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... them in time for our review. If you do not send them directly and plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail, Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... -slickers we apparently are, and decided to head for warmer climates for the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010