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  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... in that class was fine-tuning our ears by being guided all over MIT ... Programs, which you could listen to here). The final project in the class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7 ... classroom on campus, a small room in Building Four within hearing distance of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... in posts about Charles Guan, was crackling with crazy creations. Their ... fill this venue from the melted-down materials within a year. In stark

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

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT ... .96 (Management in Engineering). Our class was split between graduate and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of ... common solvent, which those of you who have worked in labs or even used ... purity, so we need to remove all the unwanted stuff in that stream. That

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... there is in me. I remember when I told him last year that I'd gotten ... . A big tear welled up in his eye, and he said: "you know, that's what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in ... involvement that used to happen in the blog comments now takes place elsewhere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international ... what in the world we're saying.  No, maybe you're sick!  Or down!  Or ... , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... , and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals ... career in research, I needed a very specific plan. I had no plan, but that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  , papers, C-Show dance practices (more about C-Show in a later entry), random ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial ... November Service Project for Student Leaders in Service (SLiS) - Doing ... lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  brilliant and inspiring people and the sweetest research, but you’re also in a ... final. Before you know it, you’re deeply embedded in the “MIT Bubble ... existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!” Truth of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate ... in the context of a chemistry class, that no amount of astonished

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... 's Market for breakfast, although in reality the mango was probably imported ... with . . . ” in order to evoke the accurate positional relationship of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... friends and bonfires in true collegiate style. Wow, sounds perfect, like a ... learn in college, anyhow?" By his account she is an intelligent girl with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences with airplanes in the last 2 years have involved delays, cold, snow, and ... early and woke up early, to weather like this People in Boston will

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is far from "fake" -- actually, it is the true MIT, in a supersaturated ... probably won't see much in the way of tooling, of students working on problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A ... awesomest hat ever, it should be here in about a week or two. We actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009