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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So ... research is trying to accomplish is to design a device allows for high ... nicknamed the device "Moo-Moo" for no reason at all. This is my second UROP

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Rockwell (where Marilee spoke and the Logs sang), picked up some liquid ... sitting on the same registration chair for 14+ hours today. Woot! Mitra has ... them online for so many months! I've taken a ton of pics which I'll post

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  around here lately. We are busily preparing for Campus Preview Weekend -- setting up events, matching prefrosh (that's MIT jargon for you, the ... with you all, some for the first time, and some to continue our ongoing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... stomach). And for those of you who have completed your applications, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  , and the email address that you used for your QuestBridge application ... transcript through the QB application, please allow 7–10 business days for this ... science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  spoiled something dreadful for myself. I looked up recaps of the seasons to ... for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  grade shot up to the bar I set for myself, way back at the beginning of ... just asking for a leg up from someone else. - At our first Med ... , to be reminded that asking for help doesn't mean "giving up", and it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  didn't actually end up reading the entire letter for about 2 hours. My ... grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  their dorm. It might be helpful to set up a lunch with them for the end of ... sure to meet many like-minded prefrosh. Lots of prefrosh sign up for UROP ... Note: this post has been updated from the 2016 CPW mini-guide for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do what makes you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  but myself for ending up like this. I am angry, mother, and you cannot ... holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... ’t have the money for another grad student,” or if they secretly think I don

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I ... place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to MBTA stations. If you’re looking for a cafe with delicious food… This is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... class before—the homework for each class is to do readings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  on some stupid quest for chicken nuggets and end up in some apocalyptic ... Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time ... right now - class of '10). Alright, I'm sorry! (for this being totally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  cheesy ice breaker which somehow takes up the remaining 40 minutes of the class period. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Six times for six classes, for (what ... has their own subjective view of what boring is. For instance, some find

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  game, and then another, and I even ended up visiting Vancouver for a ... blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  classes only meet twice a week for 1.5 hours, which is new for me since my previous classes met three times a week for 1 hour. This is a double ... Friday (🎉🎉🎉), but then I have to give my full attention for 1.5 hours

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025