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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- John wrote: "IB appeals to me because of its variety and it's coursework ... and challenge, as far as we are concerned. ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  almost four hours, and there’s almost three inches on the ground. This can ... Midnight Castle Step 1: Where and when? Ideally, somewhere with snow on the ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... Collier (!) and Yo-Yo Ma (!!) were coming to MIT (!!!) to tape the pilot episode of some video-podcast-like series, and as an MTA student, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time between registration and now, I also added [annotation note="a class ... Seminar[/annotation] and [annotation note="a career development program for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... information session; then later, another student group hosts an event; and later ... and set aside for a specific purpose, a specific event. Filling my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my ... failed test. However, with extra time over the summer and this semester to ... about, and if I could go back and do it all over again, I'm not sure that

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my ... want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... have no idea.” And I told her I’d think on it for a little bit before ... advice, I just linked to a lot of previous bloggers’ advice and recommended

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  's what I'm copying and pasting below rah rah rah enjoy From: Kano ... brilliant jazz standard. i like the Lana Del Rey and Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald versions a lot.']Summertime and the livin’s easy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with ... name." Throughout winter break and IAP, Wenjun texted me, asking to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  great vibes, such great food, and such a great friend! Immaculate Vibes We ... white powder. It was both my and Paige’s first time visiting Dear Annie ... Paige and I, it just has “immaculate vibes.” On their website, the Dear

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time ... passed away suddenly, and it shook me to my core that the last time I would ... times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud Arbery. My mind was overcome by the brutal and “rightfully deserved

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional ... . And as I’ve navigated my way through those dangerous waters, I like to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... ? Of having parents who didn't disinherit me but instead sighed and said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012