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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... - considering I probably spent upwards of several weeks over the last three years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But ... that the future of this nation and of the world for that matter depends

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT ... port of call - namely, the offices or dorm rooms of anyone willing to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the rules of writing well. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language

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

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They challenged us to think about the "optimal, ideal inhabitant of the world" and ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... somewhere like the NRAO. Alternatively, you could switch out of professional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the ... an important part of the social and extracurricular fabric of the MIT ... projects. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity participate in the March of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... have frequented since I had the intention of applying to MIT, I suddenly

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  ; stuff to do with finding connections between regions of the brain ... activities probably not simultaneous!); I just climbed one of the 1.9km summits near Grenoble (the most unbelievable 360 degree views!) and I would like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... blogs and application info, and had a working knowledge of all the course

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts ... method which will minimize the formation of these Maillard reaction

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when ... excerpts from the mit best of the blogs. [caption id="attachment_52458

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly ... represent some of the best and brightest stars of our future. We are honored ... , but because of the highly selective nature of our process, we did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a ... I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... walked out of the room to talk with his supervisor), Stephen sitting across from me is doing some crazy-impressive mapping of the Whirlpool galaxy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... watch Netflix during the semester, aside from the occasional episode of ... . i started consuming all sorts of media: the movies Black Swan

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... other a lot, and it's kind of neat. Meara from across the hall cooks ... that bio pset on my desk. Cool learning experience of the day: 21F.716

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005