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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what ... machines, like in the picture? How was it? What sort of buildings do local ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and ... realizing how hard it is to write live while only using the top ten hundred

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  people in the same pod to work out together, and my podmate showed me how ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  best place to study social science. 24.03 and 24.191 illustrate how ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me ... think I took this picture to illustrate how busy South Station is the day ... DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... pinocytosis exists and maybe I need to factor that in now   2:52 am: I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  heading to the tunnels. If you're interested in learning more about/getting ... getting lost looking for events? Instead, get lost in this year’s Next Big ... , honesty, growing up, and how everyone is weird in their own wonderful way

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... given to the stranger who brushes by you on the sidewalk.  In these times ... , uneven sidewalks that switch from brick to concrete in one block and the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way imaginable - we have the same romanized last names, we're both in the same ... . All these memories come to me at once, in the same time and place, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  laundry. 4:00pm – Allan went to take a picture of the statue in front of ... Borderline (a general one, just to refresh on how unity works, and then one for ... blog was super random. It probably is. But we just really wanted to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad ... —doesn’t take long to complete—and like my time in UPOP, the application provides ... young undergrads to see how the program considers each application. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... , just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... extent, it doesn't matter. If you're good enough to get into MIT, you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... editorial in the high school or town newspaper, etc. You may send these to us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much ... " align="alignnone" width="400"] how I'm trying to be in 2024[/caption ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i ... profoundly grateful that this field of study even exists, that i get to do work ... multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017