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MIT's code for TOEFL is D021
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Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel
Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a "stopover program," for multi-day layovers with free/heavily discounted hotel -
Blog / How to Human
how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows
do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post for nearly two months (?!) - i told myself it was writer’s block, but ... you think you’re on the right path for you at the moment, you might wake -
Blog / Challenges
Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year
to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... blogger. So I stayed at MIT. I could still take up to half of my classes at ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a -
Blog / Challenges
Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?
Hayden for the next few hours.” I hadn’t thought about experiences like ... have fantasized about waking up, going to class, eating, working ... sobered up from. Which is sad in some ways, but also an inevitable and -
Blog / Life after MIT
Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.
York Magazine's picks for the fall. Junot (we didn't call him Professor ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... 's another juicy quotation for the click-averse: "Then Díaz more or less -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?
that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... things a little differently. Here is this incredibly artful for those of ... start setting up camp, got a little more into the whole pirate mood than -
Blog / Admissions
I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them
kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases -
Blog / Classes
[Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25
is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?
, I went to set up and run the activities midway booth for Chinese ... ; (True story: agonized over this title for days before giving up and going ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven -
Blog / MISTI
We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…
-taking fee. As we sat on the roof for about an hour, a sound crew set up for a ... pour concrete into its base. The tower actually ended up leaning even further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just -
Blog / Admissions
March Questions Omnibus 3
) after decisions r mailed out..." Of course! Here goes, catching up on your ... , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Atomic Friends a comic
in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... more on its pictures to tell story rather than its dialogue. For our first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a -
Blog / MISTI
The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!
miscommunication with a German ticket officer that ended up with me not reserving a ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into -
Blog / Events
Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?
Sherlock (you have trained your oculomotor nerves for this purpose.) It ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... -codes everything makes it impossible to extract any useful information. You give up -
Blog / People & Identities
New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)
below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Targets shooting things and hitting them
first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... it was a general rule for precision shooting events that weapons be -
Blog / Academics & Research
Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning
lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years, grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.
!), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic -
Blog / Admissions
Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview
Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here. I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear