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• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  people, each imparting their tidbits of knowledge and advice. I was in your ... . So why, oh why, did I choose MIT? First of all, I lived in Boston for two summers (I'm originally from Maryland) while I was in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did ... in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which ... time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... knows what it will be this year.) What should I do now? Should I send in ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog bio. Not only that, but I decided to write a survey. It would be mind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  sure they would be worth less in total than this microscope.) I wish I ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  :) Nonetheless, I'm currently in Barker - MIT's engineering library. It's right ... love sweatpants. I would wear them 24/7 - except it's not 100% socially acceptable to do that... In any case ~ I wish all of you the best with your

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a solution, I openly annotate my own example sheet for discussion in ... to compensate their education for their GPA. In comparison, I will

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  taking and trusting that somehow in the future, I would eventually graduate ... semesters, I would only have to take 3-4 classes to graduate in the spring of ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order ... , admit it, that's more money than you've ever seen in person) While there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been ... ’ve climbed each day. I’m calling this dataset “Baby Steps” because of how ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  kicked off campus in March. With all the meetings that were scheduled, I ... :30-3:00 I had a biweekly check-in for my communications job with the MIT ... sitting in them. Read: I need to exercise more. Course Road will chew you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... . I'll rely on my practice instead of my head. But now, in so many ways ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... was also one of the more surreal mornings I've ever had in recent memory

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building ... better. In the two years I was gone, I[annotation note="unless you count ... a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019