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• 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 ... on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... post is that Prof. Reddien allowed me to interview him the other day, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this ... brochures? tips and things? website? information fairs? making a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  universe much like ours - but its inhabitants are built from pixels and lines ... college essays, and maybe you’re right, but I really like writing! College ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  shielded as we are by this great institution. This blog is my platform, and I ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  camel charms, and fake designer bags. [carousel image1="109269" image2 ... ="hopefully a sign that they were real and not fake??"][/annotation] and I picked ... Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  , and hopefully someday, a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... could really synthesize who i had been and what the Institute had made me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  extremely hard towards my degree just like all of you here. And I still ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place ... , one urinal, and two toilets, and as 80 people have offices on that floor

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and ... and can still multiply and divide just fine in her almost-senile 90 year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  degrees from this fine institution!"]Charles and Henry Greene ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more floor space for other things."]loft[/annotation]during REX, and then write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  income and there's a statistic that states that more than 90% of MIT ... states. I've personally taken trips to New York and New Hampshire with ... undergraduate student that works with MIT faculty to provide support and act as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• 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 MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  , and undeniably the ultimate answer to the universe is 42. BUT! MIT is ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... , (unless they specifically asked I not post about it) and my best answer. If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  regulated by institutional, state, and federal policy. And, while we offer ... As I've mentioned here, here, and here, I've been spending my summer leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  are not matched in rigor and content by other institutions. I'll add a ... . Why not call Course 9 'Biology'? Why not go the full distance and ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of ... Preview Weekend (CPW)! Over a thousand students will be on campus and there ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A ... . Also, I've gotten comments from high school juniors and sophomores, so I ... that any of them had ever been read, and kind of arbitrarily gave them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005