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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... prep courses are helpful in that you have a structured environment that ... important. The AAMC has released 9 real MCAT practice exams that you can

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  feel like taking the Physics GIR is like being at a buffet with all-you-can ... - which is how you perform in relation to the rest of your class). Thus, if you have a lot of very intelligent people in your class, it might be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  can be a fresh start. in fact, mit is anything you want it to be. i am ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of these failed relationships. And maybe, in reality, it is you. It's you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I was in 10th grade (and since that was only three years ago, you can ... may or may not work for you. (I took a couple of online classes and ... Program also have summer classes you can take for college credit. Also

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from ... you get the Level 2 Water ring in the ice cavern, equip Wave on the left ... . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  . Why? Because it comes with a side of mashed potatoes. You just can ... toy presentation, and you can tell right away that she's really easy to ... everywhere. If you can't find them, you're just dumb. Sometimes I think MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  genome is written in about 3 billion base pairs, or letters. If you stretch ... vegetable goop. If you’re doing this with a group you can use the bottommost ... as white goop on the surface of the green or red goop. You can spin it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  Confidential page. As you can imagine, with this deferral, I had to wait EVEN ... decision to doubting why you even applied. In the long run, everything works ... destined to from the start. Once you send in your application and do your

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  cool they are, and what online learning is like when you actually know it ... in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  in Connecticut? A spiderweb of cracks. The cost of pset help? You got ... -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  productive you could be doing. (2) Failure is all too common - you can't be ... MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  incredible final show (You can watch the recorded presentation online here). It ... strapped onto your bike so you can train outside. Silver introduced Contour ... Sunflower, an incubation bed that can be used in developing countries to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... international armed with inadequate English? Yikes! In cases like that, can’t you ... more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in ... into fistfights in Matt's office.  Yet decide we must, and ... :  Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  noon in Room 26-152. And you can read online about his research with the ... : Well of course. Probably by spinning a ring. Prof. Fisher: Well, you can ... the record, setting a new mark of 51 seconds! This spring, you can see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  like myself and the Pope is that people will inevitably recognize you in ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006