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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... of anything else at the moment, but if I do happen to have a flash of ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

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

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  spend most of my time anxious meeting so many new people on campus at once ... , philosophical, and ethical look at the future of biotechnology. Despite it being ... from graduating seniors at my high school that the social aspect of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  mainstream culture. If you've heard of hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of ... come up with new ideas. The car on the dome had been done, so a couple of ... at least give you a glimpse of another point of view other than my own

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  added another job on top of that and am back at my old UROP, but under a ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  this self-imposed rubric, but I'm tired of it preventing me from blogging anything at all. So, in defiance, here's a series of thoughts, none of which ... , a New Years blog, a blog from the beginning of junior fall where I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady ... importantly though, remember the BIG picture. At the end of the day, it doesn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  new full-frame digital SLRs on the market that can match the quality of ... a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  following: keep track of your stuff; learn your Athena commands; people at MIT ... the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  grade at the end of the semester before deciding if you want the class to go on your transcript or not. My point is, you meet a lot of cool new ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  's important in each dorm: the people. Some of the dorms at MIT are more ... somehow, I promise. There are lots of different kinds of people at MIT, as you undoubtably noticed at CPW. Hence, there are lots of different kinds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  books do you like" i realize i'm pretty bad at organizing this kind of ... 's people in there rn i should've just gotten boba at teado instead of coming ... . there are a group of people w/ suitcases waiting at the wrong part of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  put at the top of the fire don't really show up - you can see them a ... small vase -- you can see how much glass is left at the bottom of it ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  performance in all of New England. In the days before sales opened, social media ... time at the beginning of the semester is less precious than the time in ... dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my ... was 3 missiles, and three of the five runs had no missiles launched at ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  bus back. 2. I am back at the student center, conveniently without my ... (and am) a fairly non-threatening awkward Asian girl I am yanking at a ... . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  Newburyport, MA, bike through the coastline of New Hampshire, stop at a lobster ... miles from MIT, at the end of the orange line T) [caption id ... ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition(FRC) Team 1710

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006