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  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  things to do, doing well in them, getting leadership activities, volunteer ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  . You don’t necessarily have to be getting straight As in all of your ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  hometown of Portland, OR. To be honest, my first year at MIT, the heavy New ... in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment to enjoy these various snow photos taken by MIT students

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... unfair to leave you hanging like that - but in the long run, it's really ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  card to Boston Tea Stop (the closest bubble tea shop from MIT - in ... -choice concept questions scattered in the lecture slides to the instructor ... answer and provides hints if the student does not know how to approach the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in ... treadmill looks like.) This is the Porter Room. Back in the day it used to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  ! If you want to see them in action, you should go to YouTube and search ... go here to see how I defined the station, what I liked ... first two seasons are on there, so I have to figure out how I'm going to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... Oberlin, so I moved to Ohio and, well, nobody in Boston ever heard from me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  , you have to put the work in. It's hard, yes... You have to just get up ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  break!) and he hopes to get involved in a variety of public service and ... . Congrats to all four of you! I'll be in touch soon to get you up and running ... amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and ... integrate the freshmen girls onto the floor is getting dressed up and going to ... dance floors and had to wait outside in the cold more than once, but they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... basic signals analysis, how to build filters, and analyzing things in the ... trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and ... Race and 21W.032 Science Writing and New Media. In my own work, I examine ... courses would allow me to explore new ways of bringing visibility to this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... me a while to get used to all their quirks, but eventually, W.M. became ... at documenting all their work, so whenever I need to know how something

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... want to skillet so I can get some searing action on. In a beautiful bit ... sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  sequence as much of the genome as possible before Celera could get to it. In the end, the Human Genome Project finished first, mostly thanks to a new ... my lab is coordinating a book group to get together and discuss it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006