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  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  can be considered with your other talents in your application. Send this ... process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested in the field, how you acquired your research opportunity, your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  knowing how badly i keep in touch with people, i'd have stopped talking to ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... , there are no wrong choices - only good choices, and better ones. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... how long I stared at this thing until I found the word &ldquo ... really cool stories behind them? Neither did I! In the Wiesner Building are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge ... , and reboot the cycle. I quit the six-hour Tech Call job in lieu of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  difficult. I’m sure you can guess what I’ve been doing..... (*drum roll ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to ... everywhere. I didn’t have a car in high school, or a license for that matter

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in ... night almost ended in a sketchy, sketchy way, except that I am

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many ... Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify ... fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... with them in the beginning, and I am paying for that now. 😬 [carousel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  is, in fact, the only frequency I can demonstrate." 7.23, Immunology ... .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my ... about things I'm sure you all think about in bed -- structural chemistry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  . I can't even count how many people I know in the current undergrad ... plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... give some advice on how prospective students —  and their parents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It ... primary means by which I stay in touch with the language today. Given how ... ="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  in and walk up to them and say, “Hey, can I talk to you about this book ... peaking and plans were forming. Book Launch In 2012, I started working on ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014