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  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... commitment: - Can you commit yourself to 6-10 hours of UROP research per week

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  manager, lunch breaks. the 9 to 5. especially the 9 to 5. my work hours are ... hours of work needed to make the difference. how many hours of work, daily ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  wanted to do was to take 5 classes and my 10 hour/week UROP second semester ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those ... before. I decided to do the same thing for all the movies/shows I ... "] Both movies are about a young man who want to be the best at what they do

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I'll start with the question that seems to be most prominent: what does it mean to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour ... lot to see, but I filled a couple of hours just moseying down some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  - and learning about how they work is important! 7.013 (Intro to Biology ... semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  careers, and are (most importantly) really nice people who want to talk to ... . This year, I travelled to sunny Southern California. I visited high ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left me unable to do much more than mumble incoherently, sleep, and chug

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the ... hour and barked at the students to move out of the way. However, it was ... was able to go back to sleep for about an hour or so before I had to get

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to ... 've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  forgot to come home after lab. I walked upstairs to Lulu's office hours ... nobody went to her office hours and how she sat around and ate a sandwich ... could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  of my roughest days. Try to imagine breathing lead for 9 hours. I had ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball ... wanted it to, and with 2 hours until it was due we were making real

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  ready to live in paradise for a while. As important CPW is for prefrosh trying to figure out where to enroll for college, it's pretty important for ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  important to you. That said, you're probably wondering why I would expose ... before to finish three psets, so we were planning to keep each other awake. xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  particularly good at addressing. I think it’s extremely important for there to be ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006