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  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... , as quickly as you can in bullet form. Then, you go back and write one ... character count: 25,664 Number of times the space bar was used in final drafts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... laureates and study their theories in the lab." Although at last count, there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  by just rock/paper/scissors? Are there any dorms where you can live ... ! Michael Borohovski: Jess, you can choose your roommate AFTER rex if you ... with, you can staple your floor preferences together and you will be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  you can tuck in your shirt, look polished, and tell people what they ... with a 15-year run (and counting) in my chosen field, peeking behind the ... leave for college, almost all the days in your life that you’ll spend with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  upfront A. C. Newman is about his depression, and you can hear it in ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... Lights is great, so I picked Forget You. The other contender was Can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  well, but in the semester that you taught one of my classes, I learned ... someday with the same amount of joy that you had in teaching us. Perhaps I ... Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... you, you may, in the short run, have your teacher or guidance counselor ... /ACT/TOEFL/etc information so that we can work on merging those records for you. Don't be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about MIT or the college process, you are in the wrong post. SCRAM! This is an ... found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ;Why College Rankings Are a Joke," the external proof that you can do ... numbers come in: this year's admit rate will be 13%. For every student ... again, I thank you and applaud you all. “In Praise of Holistic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... important! especially for whoever happens to sit behind you in lecture). Hang ... someone else's room, then you can keep each other company, keep each other

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Hogwarts a police state where you can’t be in the halls on a weekend in broad ... has a great atmosphere. You can imagine where a vampire might come in ... son’s, and you can feel the difference between them. His narration feels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the South. On campus you can find me creating stuff in one of MIT’s many ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  '11?), Ilang (Wellesley '09) In case you're wondering, here are some of ... Yes, I'm in the American Southwest... Yesterday, I had ice cream ... Implementation of Gradient-Based Convolutional Neural Networks in Handwriting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  you've discovered my secret: in addition to spending time at home with ... 's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... -nine celsius, if you're so inclined.) When I landed in Boston, it was anything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  where you might fit in here. Your MIT experience can be really different ... your CPW host. Please respond to them as quickly as you can--school doesn ... flops don’t count). Bring a beanie or else your head will get cold. If you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a laptop?? Does anyone else still read books, or do you all have Kindles??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and ... at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively. In the ... in the office and serve as a shibboleth for student culture. We pay you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  a ball! No really, you guys should be excited. Why? Well, I'll tell you why in the following video, you goobers! Come see Simmons! Come ... Wednesday, but for now let's just pretend so we can annoy Mikey. P.P.S. Sorry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  . and just make pretty pictures... Can you see which pieces we recreated ... - GOOD LUCK TO ALL EA APPLICANTS!!! i can’t tell you not to worry, to ... . -- And nowwwww, to bring some holiday spirit in hereeee; Yesterday was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a ... In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010