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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no more chromatograms to run or users' manuals to peruse. So I think that ... superiority of Confederate generals in the face of limited resources, or the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  or 40 years. It is more likely that you will have a bunch of different ... feel like this sometimes too.) But don't fall victim to the TV or FB this ... you. Why? Because I care. ________________________________________ 1. A

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay!" I will tell ... somehow manages to be adorable and make a 1.5 hour 9:30 am class interesting ... making a 1.5 hour class (during the after-lunch-drowsiness block of time

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  different way or ask someone else. You're making a decision that will likely ... the day. Subway or Taxi? Realizing I'd filled out a survey online that ... #1 to LAX. Not Lacrosse City, folks but Los Angeles. After a 5 hour nap

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on the MIT Admissions homepage. That page will launch soon, and I ... homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled applicants still make up less than 1% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... to some...[annotation note="I count in my inbox at least eight or nine ... lasted seven or eight days, before things went downhill, but those seven or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  Gerberding and the CDC are trying to address is the fact that the U.S. is ... . (If this interests you, consider taking 17.315 (Health Policy) or 17 ... will become “a healthiest nation” (again, not a typo. She emphasized that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

      If a 5-kg pumpkin is tossed through a snowstorm such that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  the wheel when it reaches the bottom, assuming that it rolls without ... game plan. 1) Energy. Since the wheel starts high and ends low it looks

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . Revision 1, as you write or immediately after. If it comes naturally, try to ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... spirit Initiative Risk-taking, or resilience and the ability and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  (MITSO) or Wind Ensemble (MITWE), and I didn’t want to bother preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily ... some sort of pitch-matching or sight-reading exercise, and then I would

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  somewhere (data can be found here. Hope that helps! Go wrote: "Hi, Dr ... class?" I think I've generally taken 2 or 3 biology classes per semester for each of the last several semesters. Overall, I've taken either 60 or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the ... 'm headed off for an hour or two, when I come back I'll update this blogpost

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  your school library or something if you get the chance--it's a nicely-done article. Plus, if you buy the actual magazine, you can see pictures of ... like the fifth or sixth time I've posted a picture of rotting turkey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Learn from my Mistake Aesop's Fables forgot one.

  

  Rule #1: Write legibly. Background: I wrote on a pad of paper that I scheduled my GREs for October 27, or that's what I read. Turns out my 27 actually was a 21. That was my rockstar move for the day. See you Saturday!

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and ... the 1E logo (my hall in East Campus). AutoCAD was strongly ... that live here, and the logo overall doesn't quite read as 1 and E, it

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I watch the transit of Mercury. Or at least, attempt to watch ... or not to take a picture of it. Tuesday I sleep through breakfast. The Office of the First Year hosts around two or three lunches with professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  Cormick’s dining hall? Or do I talk about how safe I feel walking down the Infinite ... Muslim. Your religion doesn’t have to match your ethnicity or your race ... not Muslim, just because I dress a certain way or practice a certain way

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  time, there's the question of, will it work? will it be the same? i ... teaching and learning, or the free food, or becoming better at handling logistics, or from the pressure of other people in esp in making sure the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer ... from Hartford to Hong Kong, Seattle to Singapore. Most meetings will be ... RC Walt Price '71. Sunday The Raleigh, NC meeting will be hosted by

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010