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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  speaks to my curiosity about the fundamental working of the universe, and I ... engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... everything is so cool. SO COOL. And interesting, and exciting, and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

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  with disabilities receive equal access to all of the Institute's programs, activities, and services. We encourage you to contact Disability and Access
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  someone walking and drinking a coffee in a rush, like we do in the states. I ... One year ago, Gosha and I embarked on a whirlwind IAP trip across ... part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  footage and audio files to your working area. I use a solid state drive and ... This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media ... hours"]varying lengths,[/annotation] and of wildly different styles. Some

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  schools like Bx Science and Madison. Since none of them prepared speeches, it came off a lot better and a lot more truthful. Although a lot of it ... Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good thing I’m all bundled up though, with a beanie and down jacket. 9 ... practice, a friend from Technique, the yearbook, photography, and design club

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... inexperienced and mostly did experimental work, it looks like I'm going to start ... - there are special talks and dinners with featured speakers and various

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... , you have a DNA that encodes a protein you're psyched about, and you put ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long ... , and a bunch of photos during this coming week. Stay tuned!

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I ... practical and theoretical devices. Perhaps you did not know that lists are ... repleteness of units and their interobjectivity. From the perspective of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  around 6:30 PM, around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and above me I could feel the ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  Questions about class plans Nehalita asked about class plans, and I ... take outside the General Institute Requirements. (If you're only doing ... four classes per term for eight terms and it will almost certainly come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his ... . Dan Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, said calling Obama a geek is unfair both to the president-elect and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs, professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... professors whose work looked interesting, including my resume and a short cover

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  the way around the world from my home in the States, the Observatory was once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  a fifteen-minute bus ride. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and ... I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022