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

  

  admissions advice. Hmm.... First, here are some previous entries on specific ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... wonder how long that will last. Though I remember that the first time I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  mice, is the first recorded pathogen to elicit at Th1 response. Issel ... (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my ... first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now ... looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with ... managed to crash the Internet. I don't want to lead with that story though, so I'll save it for later :D First, let's talk about computing. MIT

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as ... means long meetings with production staff to determine the feel and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  needed to work on. I feel like that would have made my first month of ... straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however ... know that this entry won't be helpful to everyone out there, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  When we last left off, I had narrowly dodged Hurricane Ike to fly down to the Rio Grande Valley. The saga continues... McAllen, Texas ... first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... , what could go wrong if we headed down to the Common to see it? On the ... . As a purveyor of primarily wrapped items, they're even nice enough to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  mechanics. 8.286- Introduction to modern cosmology. First half deals with the ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  Learning"]TEAL.[/annotation] At first, I was really nervous to take this ... made me want to MIT in the first place. This past year, I've definitely ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  couple of things I want to touch on when answering your question. The first ... a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6 ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT ... second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  to the ever bittering elements, but I shall adapt. My first venture ... involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  . Through my first semester, I was pretty scrupulous about going to most of my ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020