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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  bought a few other things to go with it and yesterday I had tacos! That was pretty cool, because I like tacos. And it was only the second time I ever ... my tacos, because she fed me steak and potatoes once, so that seems

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a QuestBridge Finalist and ranked MIT, your QuestBridge application will be
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know that our prospective students (and their teachers, counselors, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  us through midterms and she offered me play dough in two different ... and expect promptness. I don't like sudden changes and I don't like when ... exactly where I've put things even if it's messy and out in the open and not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  degree program, and head into the “real world”, by March 2013. Prior to ... was literally and – perhaps more importantly – figuratively a one ... away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... people talking about “engineering leaders” and “engineering leadership.” I ... between generic leaders and engineering leaders? Truth be told, I’m still a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... My name is Keri Garel, and nothing else in my bio is true anymore ... bio that are immutable; my birthplace will never not be Jamaica, and my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep hitting ignore and ignore and ignore until i actually need to deal with it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star, video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon ... Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through the 2A program, and ... Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  Institute of Technology." We were very impressed by this, and I personally ... seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... , but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They ... and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  's confident that the proteins would be ripped apart and rendered harmless by such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to ... back to animals. Appel assumed that the United States, like most modern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  cynicism related to one's job; and c) reduced professional efficacy. Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not ... important things to write about. And, with the summer, I have more time: not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] Joseph Hooker, Massachusetts State House (and the Sacred Cod ... Central Square last spring. I only had one pencil drawing and literally ... every so often and do whatever I wanted with the source material. Anyway

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023