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• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  same for all the statements. Then when you get to item 7, put in a ... coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of ... ://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... over topics of conversation for when y’all come to visit in the East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... up to that point are just differences in order. *** One thing I notice

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a ... different, and you get to choose which one you live in. I now think this is ... being in a small program is a really easy way to get to know professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... some puzzles, and slept over. On Sunday afternoon, I learned how to play ... needed to. But do I want to drop things in the first place? Do I really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... come to MIT?and...how stressful does it get on an average day? thanks ... easier to get in than stay in. Thoughts?" Once again, Borski '09 answered

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much rarer back in September, before I had access to as many makerspaces, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... visualization, or to watch a significant person in the field talk about it) 5) Get ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... , my thoughts were, how do we get people invested in continuing these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and ... program. Teams get evaluated based on how well they live these core values. You get judged not only on how many points your robot scores during the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... friend who also skated at MIT to teach me how to step over cracks and brake ... adrenaline rush. Being able to make meetings or classes across campus in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not ... luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I ... get quite a lot of things, if you know where to look. Like... Free food ... groups or one of MIT's many offices should be enough to get you started

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... program, you get to spend a month in Madrid, taking a real MIT class, with ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  close to the chapel (currently under construction). In fact, Maseeh is ... , but in a few weeks, once my schedule lightens up, I'll eventually get ... days), I'm back in my room with absolutely nothing to do. I use the term

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... in the above diagram, where you get sent to line up in front of one of ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... how badly I was struggling. Not that my friends didn’t notice (I like to ... incorrect in this assertion, but I began to feel that I was good at concealing

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022