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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind ... learning disorders in general. We are beginning to find that dyslexia is not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from ... to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and ... wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  interests with others helps to get your thoughts and priorities in order. In ... ), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... made a valiant effort to get through my backlog of games. Since freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... they sold to make a living. They let us come in and see how they lived ... characters, like Walt Disney set up back in the thirties, to get invested in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and ... background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my ... . To get in, you must either be the next Newton, or filthy rich. Good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... guide to getting groceries as an MIT student. I’ve been quietly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to ... … Pass through Las Vegas (again) on our way to… One day in Joshua Tree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  software. Or getting pointers on how to commercialize research from someone ... variety of programs in place to help startup founders get the funding ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  somehow made it to Back Bay in time for us to get on the train home. Do ... excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... 'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get ... my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  hold the jump button to jump higher. You can move while in the air. You ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... 's a beautiful attention to detail, with how Madeline's hair changes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... friends asked me how I was doing: The passage was so narrow that I had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011