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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... those signals to determine what's out there in the world. All the senses ... the eye, signal detection theory, and more, and we get to look at lots

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... specific space. To be with this specific guy in this specific frat in a house ... to address. In January, I told him I didn't like his frat. I told him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get ... Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Why are you interested in applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• 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 / 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 / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• 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 / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... train, used to and, to some extent, continues to play an important role in ... used to be all the rage in country music. Purported to be on the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... year I get [annotation note="on the ground, in my general vicinity

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  fully to one school, while still hoping to get in elsewhere and with ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two ... .mit.edu. In addition to slacking on email (in order to spend more time on ... applicants? I know it says you are required to live on campus in one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... getting four half-gallon tubs of ice cream and happening to come across a

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... wanted to do lab research for the longest time, but after getting a UROP in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... honest, I'm becoming quite discouraged now. First I was too late to get ... they couldn't find enough people to make quorum and the team gets find if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  's where they get you. (Tricked me again, life!) According to my mom, you ... in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  for a different reason, whether it was to get somewhere or just to ... parkway in boston, so that i could actually climb the stairs to the bridge ... close to the water and peer in. But, I found that most of the grass was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011