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• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get ... lab equipment). Importantly, you want to get really involved in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus ... 's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... the going got tough. And the going can get tough in a lot of different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  how to keep students from cheating on them. Yesterday in 11.125, we ... In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  DO stuff. Whatever it is you like to do, get out there and get it done ... on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in ... what you tell them, so it's in YOUR best interest to be honest. Because

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70 ... meetings in New England: Jenny Rifken will be traveling to Portland, Maine ... Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the ... than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  satisfying to feel like you're actually getting somewhere in accomplishing your ... school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  decisions going to be online in December? I'm trying to figure out how heavy ... to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I ... 's almost time. Almost time to see Kenneth. I hadn't seen Kenneth in a while ... really grown up. "I feel like in high school you really used to be the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  carry really small things (as talked about in How to Power Things to Make ... , this class was so fun! 2.008 How to Make A Thing Many Many Times In How ... all how you want it to. In this class, we learned a lot about when it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  front. there are plans in place to advance the game: but i can't get too ... 're scheduled to be in, and so forth...) there are also rules changes that the ... 't participate in it myself. it's a lot more fun to be a player, though. :) the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... to every 24-hour day. How do   you use those extra sixty minutes? Sleep ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• 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