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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  this certainly does not have to be in the form of a trophy. You should ... employer for the same job since my first year of high school, does it affect ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about 1050 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of ... also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No. How

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  multiples of three were a good rule to follow, I tried the 15th floor first ... , elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  simultaneously was not good enough for me to take 8.012, the advanced version of ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... crafted a very clever plan, sort of like the plan you make when you are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the ... aren't the most important part of your application. Letters of ... doing research. Gradually, the blurry outlines of A Competitive Applicant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  yourself as well: Try and get a good grasp of what the card is saying ... flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... America and Bill O'Reilly is 'Papa Bear,' does that mean HE'S the number one ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  going to these ones; I think the titles give a good sense of some of the ... I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... of American ensemble, and the light is softer now. I like it. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  scientist. So, why does studying the delivery of siRNA even matter? About ten ... -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  like they could be the second half of a year." "Hmmm, how does this ... discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... (generally the people who noticed it first and were sick of the puzzle they

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  locks in good working order? Does the apartment/house contain lead paint ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good ... . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research ... are slowly becoming an adult In part, the fact that so much of your ... that happens outside the classroom. (This is part of the reason that the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the ... , and do not have to choose a major until the middle of their second term

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... and up the sides of roads, through the heat of the mid-afternoon to the darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... grew out of the ancient battles for Anglicanism, but rather an even more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , they were designed with the new phenomenon of cars in mind. Copenhagen ... taxes, which can double the price of a car. I’m not sure how this ... ’t make them inaccessible? All of the associated costs of having a car, such

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming ... home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help ... . Current members of the Class of 2015, future members of the Class of 2015

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... ) during the last dinner of the week in Unos! Can’t wait to be counselors

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018