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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... mistake; if they really deserved admission. To the members of the Class of ... weaknesses. I think back to a story one of the bloggers told me about coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• 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
• 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

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  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 / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  our "experiment" to calculate the size of the ping pong ball "nuclei" in ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... still don't really have the slightest clue as to what he actually did. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... the possibility of being dangerous to yourself and those around you. About 20% of people have obtained an injury due to a sneeze. The angle of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio ... the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were ... :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the grocery store with his mother, he would calculate the amount of cash she ... to attend the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012