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  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  thing. I highly suggest it!) So does this mean that you can pour all of ... community college) and get good grades in them. And, of course, you can get ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  no resolution in sight, I sent the following at the end of the day: I ... CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... . ------------------------------------------------------- The Waitlist I've gotten a bunch of correspondence asking about the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  put a demo of the synchronized audio in this blog, but I don't think ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of ... sort of behavior was typical. Now, I'm a little sheltered in this regard ... not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  getting in :) Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't be of much help. If you ... chances of getting admission? Is there a way I can still have the interview ... : I'm sort of in the middle of a bunch of traveling, so my answer won

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit ... , to signal that I was not interested in establishing some semblance of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I can pop into unannounced, and I wouldn't feel out of place making an ... also helps if you can read quickly -- there's a lot of reading in college ... have a list of books I've read in the past few years. Also, if you have

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

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Wits is an awesome example of a place you can work after you graduate, I ... Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully ... under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... with a few of them and discuss majoring in physics at MIT. I realize that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  multiple bottles/cans of caffeine. I ended up taking 384 pictures of CPW, so ... of the criteria that I'll be looking for in the guest entries I publish ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them ... to send in a Mid-Year Report. One of MIT's application brochures says I ... still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... fill in the gaps =) I still can’t believe that they scheduled these ... A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... feeling. I have put a lot of effort into being in touch with all of my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  virtual reality, and photos of every VR event I've been to in 2017 so far. I ... valuable insight on what kinds of experiences work best in VR. While I ... . If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  brewing through the very air pockets of MIT, and I was able to breathe it in ... ) on one of the roller coasters. As you can see, I’m the poster boy for ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . There's these corners that I can hide in and do my work. It's quiet, but ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023