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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  world of GIRs my freshman fall, I saw them as obstacles. I had to get ... ` (MIT`s motto-- had to stick that in somewhere) to ask the right questions and to be creative and innovative in seeking our answers. Without the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... . Anything in the gap between the subject and the verb is less likely to have ... meaning in context you want it to have; use the thesaurus again if you have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... five Science Writing programs in the country, so it’d be cool to stick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  , and I finished. Now I get to go home for ten days. I get to prepare for the feeling of yet another fresh start. I get to feel whatever this ... Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It's 9:05 am. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  never actually get to something 2-dimensional, given that the slices of ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana ... , vocab word of the day). Now for the part of the blog in which I get more

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to ... recommendation form. It is also okay -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... drums to destroy the undead is so strongly swimming in the zeitgeist that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... lanes next to us. In the other direction. After driving through the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection ... factual errors, it does also correctly state that we have seen a rise in ... applications this year, both record highs. It is shaping up to be an extremely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  won't know how to get there but no worries because everyone else was ... and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  get to take exciting classes in your first year? But maybe, just maybe ... upperclassmen getting to feed on the prefrosh's energy. And it's true, in some ... One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong ... . In Woody’s, we need to decide what to eat. After much deliberation, we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... importantly, whatever they wanted to know when they were in those positions ... . So, I reached out to Felix and put him in charge of this project with

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do ... while if I had something else really important to do. So, in between ... dashed gallantly back to the student services center with signed form in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new ... in front of us. I snatched one! Yum. dinner: I went to a Sloan event

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... extent, it doesn't matter. If you're good enough to get into MIT, you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012