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• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  old. You do not need to finish every problem in the Big Game to get to ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... to make the numbers add up right in many different ways at the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , or, in some cases, freshman year.  The differences meant little to me then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... to analyze how much methane is actually in the gas we've collected

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this ... an incredibly nerdy thing to go to an optional lecture in my spare time ... and was inundated with opportunities to hear from celebrities in science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you academically and culturally. How do I get around campus? What if I want to go ... lost walking to Pika late at night in the cold, and was unsure how to use

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  all this time, I never cease to be thrilled to get to finally meet all ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... great resources so don’t be afraid to ask them about their experiences. In

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• 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 / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... weekly check-ins to see how they were going, and helped develop question ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too ... sure to get our feedback for our weekly quizzes, too. I was really just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... a professor from MIT, here in Cambridge!!! How awesome is that

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  my ability to get into grad school. About how I could totally recover ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... that build of one another in order to move towards the desired product

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... extremely difficult. In the end, we were very happy to be able to admit these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  amazing Alumni Directory (https://alum.mit.edu/as/index.html) to get in ... interesting question, one that took me about four years to figure out how to ... ://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... Teachers Association, to help let teachers know about the challenge and how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . In retrospect, this might just have been because I didn't know how to ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020