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  The end of a chapter

  

  to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human ... is also an excellent partner to my other two courses, Pathology and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below ... is what happened to me, but I didn't figure it out until after I got ... stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing ... getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... lot of effort sometimes though! It means you mostly have to interact

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... mainly academia orientated?" Now, the short answer to this question is yes ... you to think we're sketchy, 2) it's entirely possible that I'm the only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  requirement to graduate, but, you know, it is much easier to sit at home and eat ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... Things right now, if you haven't already. It is required reading for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  realizing what a waste of time it is to overthink the features of the bodies ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... . I could tell it meant something to the die-hard fans, but I was ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , being abroad is my comfort zone. Since then, I have travelled to around ... being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that ... -gatherer predecessors? I think it’s important to acknowledge the very rightful discomfort

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  it easier to build roads. So, starting “from scratch” is especially ... necessary for this well, as it is much deeper than shallow backyard wells. But as a side effect, it is also much safer than an open cavity, which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... . It still is. Though it was mainly written for high schoolers, I found ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  into MIT. The major reasoning behind my decision to go here was that it ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH ... the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... exceptions. It asks who you are. It demands to know who you are. It's about

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room ... , so there's nobody to talk with. 1:45 PM. The autoclave is finally done ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself ... least I noticed it today) I'm probably going to be more hesistant about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015