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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... like magic, staring at this alien device, this thing of the movies. With ... house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  D) Administrator at Duke VP of technical services company (formerly in the Air ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc ... possible moment (writing headlines and looking at every other piece of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... , something that’s not “legit,” at the conference. I felt ashamed of myself. I ... more. At the beginning of my sophomore year, I decided to join a student

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  available. And now, a selection of various dishes I have made this semester at ... vide the roll in rabbit bone stock at 139 degrees Fahrenheit for 4 hours. Chill roll, then slice into desired thickness. Bake at 375 degrees

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we ... .177: Astrobiology, Origins and Early Evolution of Life (1) It's not offered this ... version of the class offered in the spring, 12.409! Return to Table of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of ... MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  had a similar idea, and both of us e-mailed the powers at be (Dave) and ... flags at the top to give them similar angles, and then tape the back of ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  look at it. College decisions are not a reflection of your personal merit ... rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... glimpse at my jobs spreadsheet. i had shortlisted and applied to most of ... relevant experience for. A lot of people shoot their shot at literally every

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? It ... glanced at the stone passageway in front of me, my bicycle locked to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020