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  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... internal hoops. In an effort to get the blogs up and running as quickly as ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... to hell" with an arrow pointing to MIT, but I'd have to get on the road ... about birth control. I didn't get to sleep much (I only slept about 10

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how stupid you must be to let that get to you again your rage is ... time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... year I get [annotation note="on the ground, in my general vicinity

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  to not only get involved in things, but to get good. Don’t worry ... , they also get to learn from other students. In fact, my specific friend ... you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  fully to one school, while still hoping to get in elsewhere and with ... My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  also give talks in class, and get lots of individualized feedback to ... faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard ... Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  more difficult to actually find the time to learn how to integrate sec^3 ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... 've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  dragged to watching matches I wasn't interested in, and I'd get stern talks ... angle it to hit the ball in the right position, how you'd have to keep ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  supportive. How did she know that we weren't going to win? In the end, though ... Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... surprising number of freshmen did not know how to do these things...o_o” Mom

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  to this concept in high school,” and my brain cried out (silently, of ... down a list of things to remember. Things that, in an ideal world, we ... live stream video with cool guest hosts to entertain everybody in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  someone to just know me already and get past all of that and exist in a way ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers ... to young'uns about what an awesome opportunity they have in VI-A. You

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get ... you to get yourself a Kerberos Identity/Athena username. What will this ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010