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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  doing everything this summer, or whether i will just do everything less ... hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or ... iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  doesn't mean you're below average or struggling, it means that MIT has ... watching their children. 1) Parents are CONVINCED that unless they call you every day to remind you, you will forget to eat and subsequently die of

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... that involved comparing SAT scores, high school grades, or AP scores. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  neurons in the striatum -- we know it's important, but we don't know how or ... my lab -- we do take MIT UROPs. At the very least, come have $1 ice ... 'm at MIT two or three times a week, coaching the cheerleading squad. When

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  in the first place, that I was just ignoring or repressing or negating ... one is comfort. It's a feeling that you get when you believe things will ... . But maybe this is longing, or maybe desire, mixed with grief. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  diseases or defects. We’ll see where society will decide to draw the line ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  will get along with a person or how interesting they are. I feel like I ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or ... have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  shape. It’s 1 hour until instructors will be coming by to examine ... , or using quick-fabrication methods like laser cutting) can be better ... $6500 for the three months of 2.009. Most teams will use all of this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my ... mix the DNAs together with Lipofectamine, which will scrunch them into little bite-sized pellets of DNA which my cells will want to eat up. 30 min

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, or Pasteur's theory that germs cause

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... ." I don't remember what I said to the "Team Edward or Team Jacob ... gajillion hours writing every post, paranoid that it would be "bad" or not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st ... predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  -difficult styles, all of which I had never attempted before... 1. sharing with my ... served three dishes, in order of ascending difficulty: (1) turkey ... [/annotation]songs, and let the feast begin. [carousel image1="88991" image2="88992" image3

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  lecture or for lab everyday. Who could have thought? Who could have known ... sleep that I have ever gotten: I woke up every hour or so, checking my ... . Arguments, whether it's personal, national or international can get overheated

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... advance for all the shakiness. Here is ~10 minutes from the 1 hour talk ... jabs at Zuckerberg's intellect or anything (and I'm certainly not the one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  : extraordinarily impressive or effective; a smashing performance     ... brilliantly talented, the very asset that got you in will be the biggest and ... future or work through some crazy hypothetical situation and shunt your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... 's okay, you have a 50/50 chance. It's either a yes or a no." Oversimplified ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021