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• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i'm-so-cold-and-need-to-get ... speed up a little, 1.5x speed online lectures to get through them all, go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  bound to each other, constantly in orbit, trying to survive the most ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The ... money from writing. Then more offers came in. And then I had decisions to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... benzenes really know how to react Bond lengths are equal, yeah that's a fact ... around You'll end up getting kicked outta Benzene town... Take it to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as ... potential energy is lowest. This can be used to predict how far apart atoms

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon into near space, will be photographing the spreading oil slick in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... my head in between conversations with people, trying to decipher it like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... we want to know how you spend it. Current music: Marvin Gaye, "What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  . xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... something positive to this world. People here do this in so many different ... what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I ... more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave ... and tell myself that everything’s going to be alright. How the class

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually ... project organizers really brought in the community to take part in building ... you get when you cross the Flintstones with Public Transportation

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... room for them in the class. It has been our most competitive year ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  know how when you can't think of the exact word you want to use to ... . I'm coming to realize more and more how few words have exact ... quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that ... 's course, and hope to get lucky in the end. Let the games begin. ... starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  time I try to write it I get sad and miss home and put it off ‘til later. I will get around to introducing myself and Kentucky soon, so just ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  questions. How long does IAP last? And do you only get to do one activity ... short hours after the official kickoff to get instruction in driving the ... to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write ... even going to a fast food restaurant. The food in the residential halls ... TechCash", Campusfood.com allows us to order food online and (in many

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005