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  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... like to add. Note your full name and "QuestBridge" on the cover ... accommodate you, some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , as seen on Google Images. What could be more romantic than watching the ... very-very real, complete with torture and capital punishment. On a global

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  . Monday XFair On the day before spring-semester classes began, MIT held a ... , battlebot with single wheel). "interview" I also had an interview on Monday ... . On the day before classes start--February 1, for this semester

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

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... ;QuestBridge" on the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... you, some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  most common caption to these photographs is some variation on “MIT finally put a ring on it,” or “Engaged to the institute!” While this quip is in reference to the fact that most people wear Brass Rats on their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... example, you want to discuss the broader impacts of your work on society and ... year that it's hard to keep my mind in school and on my psets. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for ... bus during the day on Sunday and I need to go to campus and it is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... . What we cook depends on who's cheffing. Within a cooking team, we rotate ... house in time for the cooking day. 3. Show up on the day, and ensure that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... courses, I began to see the layers. They let me take the course on startups ... imminent negative reaction on my part, gracefully tell you that you can do so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... back on the past four years, I can finally say I do. I can also cross ... ) after an 8:00PM track race that went well and I was so hyped up on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  the community. The team is also gathering feedback on solar lantern ... to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... és, which works on large-scale environmental projects including cooking stoves

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out ... from a firehose. Now that I look back on it, that letter was asking me if ... -crazy free food all around!) I'm not on a meal plan (because I like to cook

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  prep course. This decision is totally dependent on the type of person you ... understand, and complete with practice questions that were very much on the ... this book to be on par with or even slightly better than the EK orgo book

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... had five on my list, he nearly fainted...that meant he would need to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... drop more blocks on your opponent's screen. It looks something like this ... . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last ... 's not a riddle.” On the other hand, General Relativity has been an eye-opening experience on the days when I've drank enough coffee that it hasn't been an eye

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center. So I am following Mollie’s lead and posting an update on my life after ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... classes come psets so...that's a wash. On other hand, I am trading Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... happened to come across the Nature paper on a friend’s desk. He decided to ... immune system, and tested these nifty band-aids on pig intestine in the lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus ... ’t play Underground CTF, I did play BC’s CTF on Thursday night

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008