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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  same thing, just with a different question. I am so smart. Now that I ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  much! Also, a comment from "struggling," who wrote: yes i am still ... don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to ... the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  : MIT does not need a chaplain Responses published on 1/16 Responses ... IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... Islamic point of view, the discussion...wasn't really much of a discussion

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color ... , to be somewhat precise (some friends and I put my laptop on a scale ... with the stickers I put on my laptop. They need to convey my personality

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  that description was actually a love story. They somehow manage to blend ... my pockets goes.     From left to right: a logitech mouse ... balm, a hair clip, a USB to USB-C adapter, a micro-USB to USB-A cable, a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... . Typically there is a "well" of potential energy, and a certain point at which potential energy is lowest. This can be used to predict how far apart atoms

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  lab by 9 AM -- I needed to run some gels and generally be a productive UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... lab. I am happy to report that it does, and I spent a few minutes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  everything needs to be absolutely perfect to get a good result.  And it takes ... much as I could, it was never enough to more-than-pass.  I learned how to ... ON BIRTHRIGH IT WAS SO GREAT!!  Birthright is a free trip to Israel for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  life interesting. I needed a reminder of that. Raise Your Glass To ... really does take a village to raise a child.  And if I am where I am in ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... rewarding summers of my life, and a lot of it was thanks to MIT. I spent the ... to a group of awesome middle schoolers and officially discovered the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  because of how much physics was involved! We had to create a grid of spheres ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a ... that rotated the curve around a vertical axis to a create a 3D model with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... ISOs, and you want to do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  outside of your family who can help you to determine your need for a waiver ... -Pod I need to save for the Senior Trip/Senior Prom Um, no. So what does ... Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  you were a student in web.lab 2020, but you never had to use this stuff ... really don’t need to anymore, writing summaries in the speaker notes and ... your life, you don’t have to address a disproportionate amount of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  to be an admissions blogger read, Once, years ago, there was a Great ... day. Time and time again, a younger version of myself began to nod off ... . I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  been rather silly to create a blog that no one would read. Nonetheless, I ... ?) their windows, but a cat, too: I stood back far enough to record a video ... ) I didn't get to any events across the river 2) I didn't spend much

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... to occupy myself with.  my friend Espen S. ‘27 invents a lot of games ... i haven’t had the heart to throw out, and since today i really needed

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to where you need to go and it's one of my favorite aspects of MIT, truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  droplets rapidly to create a thin film, and then boiling away the solvent ... comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a ... that they were the exact same: i’m not going to talk much about the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  arrows much faster, and a few attempts later i was able to hit most of the ... none of that is true; maybe what you needed all along was a way to worry ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023