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  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  the size of half a penny. Once you see this and determined that most of ... a condensed "sauce" at the bottom of the skillet. Remove the chicken ... portion of the sauce and add water or just boil/stir-fry the vegetables

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor ... to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner. But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... 'Belle and Sebastian University.' I was like, 'Belle and Sebastian! Awesome ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told ... DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... . It's about that time of season when MIT students buckle down, chain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  University School of Medicine have found that the quarter to half of dyslexic ... the University of Louisville, Kentucky, has found that dyslexics also ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit ... metal-ligand catalyst via spectoscopy (5.04), finding the best set of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012