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  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date ... Match? A: If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the ... completed your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... "average" scores of a class is that by definition, some percentage of the ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... lights and turned my lamp on. All in all, I enjoyed the process of this ... particular audience in mind: his 5-year-old son. He talked about the process of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  . 4. MIT has incredible resources that they let you use The amount of ... have had good reasons! As some of you may know, I've been studying abroad ... months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . The podcast is hosted by two scientists, both of them biologists, and ... predisposed to go through cycles of extreme motivation followed by burnout, and ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to ... against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  !!! 2.009 is the Product Engineering Process class, usually taken by ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... about the product design process (Ideate. Model. Test!) and then apply

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  resources to do so and still remain a productive member of a company ... (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... again a team of drastically more boys than girls.   The first

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Regulations of the Faculty 2.11: Classes shall be suspended during the following ... (except when Labor Day is September 6th or 7th) to be determined annually by the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... conference on sustainable energy with NREL, and I'm an undergrad so I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  ). Having an interview is an important part of our process. Check in with ... I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  be. I was turned down by three of the ten schools to which I applied ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I ... the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  (with documented process) that gets a stamp of approval from Keith gets ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  - my initial burst of energy quickly fizzled when I found myself knee ... 've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of ... cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  search to quickly search all of the pages and/or filter them by type of ... chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we ... you can get a sense of the basic design direction.   Student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So ... ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Rob-Boss-Art-of-Thrill, and Death by Contradiction   board games ... I smile a little at the family-unit-energy of everyone running around ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017