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  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
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I ... been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  strong believer in form follows function (as it pertains to music, not ... ) the entire work is designed in an attempt to maximize the power of the ... structures that allow computers to accomplish anything, ie. how is it possible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  me. I may post some photos in a future entry. Anyway, I will get to the ... going to get to every question today. Amy wrote, "I saw people carrying boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... 't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  someone to 7/11 to get snacks. parading in the middle of the streets of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting ... -distant, of course) a few times in the park near my house. we danced to old

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  attempted to dance twice, not counting flailing around to music in the living ... . Sadly, you're not supposed to bring cameras in, so I couldn't take ... goths to nerdy goths. I dressed similar to what I often do in normal life

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005