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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?

  There's no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond ... you feel would add important context to your application, you may submit ... materials can be mailed to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of
• 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 / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I figured I was paying too much money to be unhappy. So I transferred ... As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  , shall we? *** Teddy Purdue had much reason to be nervous. The confluence ... really, had to be—he realized that he needed to drink something. His lips ... sense!” screamed Ted. He rose to full height, held the wall that had once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014