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  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any ... the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  , etc) at my own pace. In the fall, I started kindergarten. Summers 4 ... to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... merge sorts and Dijkstra’s shortest path. I fluctuate in this class from

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I ... another reaction. Well, I went in at 3 AM, purified my product, broke into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  necklace that I'm wearing in the UAP/VP '06 debate. A more wishful thinking version of me. "Me in fearless crusader mode." I hope that this has ... pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... was. Note my amused face in this picture.  Or it can be bad when ... . After all, there are only so many days I can get a less than optimal

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• 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 / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  friday," where i found a free cashmere sweater in my size :) the garment ... grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  Is Love?   Burton 3rd My floor! I've talked about it in great ... I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors ... , and although I'll [annotation note = "I really don't know how the COVID

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

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  to Boston, where, as you already know, I went to LeaderShape in an ... Service Center. In my 'Two Videos' entry from December, I briefly mentioned ... Boston to New York, New York to Dubai (where I met up with my mom), and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... stairs. Plus, the amusement park across the street (you can see it in the ... said: I think I would just die if I were you... No, really, just to stand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... 'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of ... remembered something that happened like, almost 2 years ago. I was in Ben

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ; can't be stressing about working out. I'll start tomorrow. On Jan 7, it ... . On April 19, it means:  Well I can't fit through my door but that ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  I've got about an hour before I'm forced off these blogs temporarily so I thought I'd squeeze in one last entry before decisions came out ... that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  as a museum, I can see why. ... So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at MIT. ...This might have also been possibly one of the best lectures I

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  admissions? Jones: It can be a big driver. Many of us in college admissions ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the news. Below, I've highlighted four major media stories featuring Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  *")----->O/H---->OH--->Two components in liquid rocket fuel--->EXPLOSIVE action. I can almost ... intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I've got something pretty cool in store, so don't give up hope just yet

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  just hope I could drop all my classes and spend all day in the lab. I learn a greater deal in lab than in classes. I think UROP has been an ... independent I’ll be in the lab. I think these three criteria were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006