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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic ... to wonder if you've slipped onto the other side of the bell curve ... tries to cling on to the crumbling remnants of their high school success

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  'm missing the point of going to MIT. Obviously, I object to that sentiment. I ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  few students had seen fit to revive the traditional Olympic sport of DDR ... this technique to research the inner workings of cognition and treatments ... its thirty boxes of pizza, to all the demos and prototypes that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... things that make the digits on your calculator) to a plastic. 2: Make the ... because a lot of the equations (MHD, for example) are impossible to solve

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  the more sensitive parts of myself. It feels kind of weird to mention ... media consumption.*** The tl;dr version (lots of links and videos below ... , to the story of a housewife who may or may not have murdered her

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... submitted to the contest “The idea of the set is to celebrate women in NASA ... program, even though that was a little bit of the focus but I also wanted to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  final project at the end of the semester online to show everyone what I ... to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to ... progressed to some level of the affiliated fairs, as well as a handful of

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

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  way to tour a startup, and the lunch boxes scribbled with calculations ... the first 90 seconds. Before long, one of us (me) succumbed to our (my ... door of the COOP to find— It didn’t budge. There was a man standing ten

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... crime. Fraendy Clervaud, reporting: "According to the Richmond County

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  let the heaviness of my fears of having to do complicated calculations ... guard down. I did so to the detriment of another seemingly small ... redundant - even a bit of a waste - if we were just going to cover the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition ... perfect finish to the college essay. I can almost feel the shivers of the ... information, comparing, calculating, and scrolling through the dark void of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to ... , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... we will not be able to admit them to the Class of 2019. Turning away so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... calculator, and in the end it turns out my dad had just forgotten to pay last ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a ... word, it is extraordinary because of the incredibly smart, hardworking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of ... renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... to 6 boxes of storage in the dorm itself (usually in basements or suite

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,312 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2023. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of ... mountains, with other mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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  along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... ) Comparison of entry to the reader's life (Something like this happened to me ... 're more than likely looking for. In addition to all of the comments, you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better ... look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015