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  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  MIT is harder than your high school. In many cases, MIT is harder than your high school in ways you can’t even begin to imagine. A thousand freshmen show up…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow! Anonymous asked, “Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your “starter child” (pre-frosh) for…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I’ve noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I was asked several times at…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Mollie has decided that she doesn’t want to write any more “this is how my interview weekend went” entries. So seeing all she has to talk about these days are…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty sick of grad school interviews. I’ve been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  Unseasonably gorgeous February days Last Thursday, for whatever reason (*cough* global warming *cough*), it was 54F (12C) and sunny. I got out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I’m the daughter of a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the shuttle to take me to SFO…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that information; first I emailed one of…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of chocolate cake.) Burning…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I’m packing tonight for my interview at UCLA’s ACCESS biology program! I’m leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an option……

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I’m back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school friends, and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I’ll start by talking about my UROP (and for those who don’t yet speak MIT, my lab job). A few months…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I’ve reached my first “last” of the year… I just put the finishing touches on my last HASS (read: Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for…

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

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  watermarks on Handel's old scores b) rastrology: quantitatively measuring the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  First, I will note with some sadness that it is currently raining outside. I hate winter rain — it could be snowing so much more productively. It is apparently supposed…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  then, keep rocking hard. It's the only way to rock. -B P.S. Nance Nance

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I’m back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the Pilgrims (and some good post-holiday shopping, too!). Adam and I took our friend Chris ’09 back…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005