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• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  everyday you get to surprise one of the greatest admissions officers in the ... 's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or ... . Conveniently enough, my UROP is in Building E25, almost right next to Senior Haus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get ... Harvard in September. (Like any good MIT student, I still get a little

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

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  of getting in based on your test scores ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... potentially rake in tens of thousands of dollars. Reply to no-reply corporate

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... and get ready to head home for the summer! I haven't spent more than two ... not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to ... , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  half hours in Montreux before I had to get on the last train back home ... Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... of my musical preferences. So, upon getting to Europe I knew that what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  easy." And then when you get that problem done, you can say to yourself ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  've adjusted to learning in the MIT system, but I do feel like there are more ways at MIT where you can get help if you want to. Office hours (an hour ... problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... , who have to get up at absurd times. left to my own devices, I would

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  students to get in without AP classes etc. My school does not offer AP ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... interviews, however, if the nearest EC to the applicant is very far away (as in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  underclassmen wanting to apply at a top university is to get involved in high ... be extremely smart to get in there." Hendrix will be teammates with ... awarded a full scholarship in an honors program to the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ’t want to eat the laundry detergent or get it in your eyes. Procedure ... ,000 to 125,000 times (2 meters of DNA in each cell ∙ about 10 to 50 trillion cells in the human body ÷ 300 million kilometers from the Earth to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly ... was able to get by without actually having to do work. At the time, it ... socialize. Eventually I learned that if I went to the library and worked in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... glad Which reminds me, to save more money Gotta get Dial Gold - as my ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... necessary to post the cute caterpillar in order to perfectly emulate my ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks ... means I don't have to take the FEE, but do I still get 9 unrestricted

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... to jam up if adjacent keys were struck rapidly in succession. So, the ... would be forced to rely on their weaker hand as much as possible. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005