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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  them and adding unnecessary stress to an already super-stressed MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  steady love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQX5jKQKfKY

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  particularly refers to personal ads about missed connections: You were on your ... jersey. That’s it. Coffee or a drink? Missed connection ads are popular

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... . If you’ve ever done any kind of research, you’ll know that while ... biologically determined origins. Yet, across decades of research, no biological

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  —here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you ... on GPA and extracurriculars than research experience (but it’s the ... technical, wet lab research if I went back to school, but I realized I could

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  , design projects, or research papers sometimes arise without warning

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe ... editor-in-chief of an MIT research journal as a sophomore, and become

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  concept development, prototyping, strategy, user research, mechanical and ... dreams of a writer, the logic of a researcher, and who knows what else. Sky

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... people from over the world, published research paper in my fifth sem, took full time undergraduate research program under my guide for my final year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  youtube."]#vanlife[/annotation] videos, and I wanted to be out of Tucson but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don’t know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you’re kind of interested in a lot of things and everything…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  The most frequent question I received during CPW was: “You’re pre-med? Wait, so why did you pick MIT?” It makes sense that I received this question repeatedly: after all, MIT…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its ‘hackathons’. What exactly is a hackathon? “At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  from pursuing incredible science and technology research on their own. If ... it. Maybe it's a sport. Maybe it's an instrument. Maybe it's research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  been researching, simulating, and writing about airports all over the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster’s dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used as an adjective: smash¬∑ing Pronunciation: Ààsma-shi≈ãFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2 :…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Polish mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot’s last name means “almond bread” in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday! It was for like 30 seconds, for a…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  high school friends, getting to do undergraduate research is a pretty big ... classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for ... test scores, or research experience, or being a National AP Scholar, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005