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• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam where I lived until 8 then my family moved to sunny southern California which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  one painting, it can still work in another. I've been drawing for most ... this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... time I've drawn in this sketchbook. During life drawing sessions, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  restrictions and rules of being in a sorority. I don't know how much I can talk ... future IAP I can do Spanish Incubator, where you go to Madrid and learn ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look ... in just for me! I have the best girlfriend ever. ... I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  've been up to:   UROP in Langer Lab  I've been dying to tell you guys ... RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... involves all sorts of stuff I’m interested in - wet lab, molecular biology

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly ... balance in my social life, since I’m meeting new people while having more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

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

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... /early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this ... , and I do enjoy it. So, now that I'm living in my own apartment this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  prefer revising the material on printed paper, where I can scribble all ... . I most definitely can't study in my room or anywhere close to my bed. I also can't focus if I'm studying with friends. I do message out in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  also be in Walker, and of the four tests this is the one where I think I ... . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... , I can afford to make a few mistakes. Still, I’d rather not… so I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  very interested in hiring people like you. When I found out about the ... about GEL as opposed to other leadership improvement programs I’ve done in ... ’re getting trained in and feedback on. At least for me, I have trouble

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ... /A-? Short Answer An Incomplete grade is an option in certain situations where

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  ’ve been trying to diversify my reading, in every sense of the word I can ... or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  . Depending on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  professor a couple weeks in advance to be like, "hey dude, i don't think i can ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... books signed. Sadly, I found out about it too late and I was in class ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... couldn't make just in my head, and I find the poem unusually compelling ... that's you, man, or me. I make it as I can, I pick up, I go faster than

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... the city is from nature. In Tucson, no matter where you live, you are at ... asphalt path. I’ve nearly run over rattlesnakes more times than I can count

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023