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  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  your Part 1 early, but it need not be in summer. Yali wrote, "I'm still in the college choosing and I am thinking if we can set up sth like a ... many students who have said the same thing. I was also in the camp of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  just hope I could drop all my classes and spend all day in the lab. I learn a greater deal in lab than in classes. I think UROP has been an ... disappointing. I mainly searched the UROP website and tried e-mailing several lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... thought I would be giving all this up by coming to Cambridge. Seriously

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... he lays in this piece - about the importance of language, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... need is a crash course in all things MIT, so I've spent my first few ... No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you ... very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  , since I told him that I would be up late. We staggered around packing my ... the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  what MIT had for me. I never thought I would get in, but I went down You ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... campus. Except I have never in my life had enough self-confidence to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• 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 ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... creativity. I really like cooking. It is kind of fun to look in your pantry

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  : !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years ... /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... different topics and latest in scientific research. I should go to more of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in ... : Thursday, Thursday September 15, 2005. Keep in mind that there are three ... http://web.mit.edu/urop/students/mit/awards.html, for example last year I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to ... including in the Optional section? ( I hope you would rate it better than just ... teacher at all in the normal sense. What would I do in this case? Second, my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  semester, and the first one I ever participated in. A lot of time I spent ... the diagrams digitally, so I draw the diagrams in by hand. In bad ... would do, but I still did really well. Here’s some scrap paper. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  "]17.307[/annotation]this year. I'm leaning towards a concentration in ... difficult considering I'm not entirely set on what I'd like to concentrate in. With all that in mind, let's get started! I start planning my semester

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... about the MIT workload. I'm sure I could get it done, but would it be at ... academics like I am. thus, i don't really think I will fit in to a 'nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005