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• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  much too busy laughing. By far the funniest moment to me, although it may ... does have a serious side effect: MIT Addiction. I want to go back ASAP. I ... ’m ready to head back to the ‘tvte. Though I have some great

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  baseline of academic preparation. We need to be really confident that you can ... to them, that tend to need the testing to demonstrate that preparation ... needs to do what is the right thing for them. And I know that's just an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  , which, as I have come to learn, is a valuable commodity. Once classes ... handle on what that means now. I haven't pulled an all-nighter yet to do ... . I haven't been able to do as much of the stuff as I've wanted to do

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... to handle. all things considered, though, i really enjoy this class ... up stockpiling a lot of random ingredients that you need to use all at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... syllabi/course evaluations tell me most of what I need to know. Some things ... about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to ... about the humanities and half as a coping mechanism to handle the eight ... although once you get off into the countryside, much of it still looks pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... old. So much thought goes into the process of any project: where to ... , what order to work in so that you have space to hammer where you need to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example ... . You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not ... wrote: Regarding November SAT testing: Do I need to make MIT a direct

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... , and the only advice the professor could give me was to practice. I NEED ... both agreed that I needed to not be in 8.01 anymore, that it wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a ... beamsplitter. Normally, we would need a photon to hit the object to detect its ... changed nothing about the source. Ok, so what does any of this have to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class ... need to start psets for classes. Form study groups to see if that helps ... beautiful and so big and has so much! There is bound to be a place for you. 4

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  encourages students with dyslexia to get the help they need. “Once the problem ... undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  was going to happen with gene-transfer therapy ten years ago and with ... decided we needed to get off-campus and go out to dinner and see a movie. I ... . Short answers to questions. 1. Anonymous asked "Does anyone know how the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  a general handle on what was going to happen: we’d do a table read of ... just when they started to get interesting, and there needed to be more ... act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  -deprived to feel much anxiety. The atmosphere was relaxed as all five of us ... the machine could go.  We needed to finish the other half of the mold ... . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... transfer the proteins to a nitrocellulose membrane (which binds proteins and ... successful transfer requires the frazzled lab monkey to correctly orient

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  mechanical engineer. The mouse is for when I need to CAD, the ruler is for ... , for when I just need to eat something and keep going. I interned at Bose ... put in my wallet, but conveniently seems to show up when I need it: “I

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

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride ... like us to see. (You don't need to clean it up -- we will understand ... some serious heat.  (according to accuweather it peaked at 108

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... weekend and thus not transferring that experience to you vicariously, you ... ; soft fluffy powder (you NE folks will just have to imagine what I mean

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on backpacking.    Disclaimer: I am but a wee freshman, and thanks to COVID

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020