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• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  , or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144 ... complaining on my end. IAP (or also known as January Term in some other ... opportunities (like what I did in my last two IAPs), to work on projects (both

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  . More bloggers were added because they worked in the admissions office, or ... interesting stories to tell or had blogging experience. Last year the admissions ... tell you how to raise your kids, parents, Korean or not. I'm here to tell

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... probably 6:30 or 6:31 pm. We logged in. Our letters wouldn't load for a ... reevaluating everything we had done in high school to try to find that *one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch ... paired on the same subcommittee today. In other news, while we were in ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the ... or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like ... . So, if an oboe player decides to go somewhere else, we may, or may not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University ... for college credit or doing field studies (in marine biology or medicine ... summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or ... about attention to detail - or even the occasional underachiever in ... . It’ll never give you the answer itself, and you still have to hand in a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  , or the small fish in the big pond." I think it's fair to say - and I ... about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science ... self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  didn’t have the mental energy to talk or listen. it feels weird, in a ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed ... to sad music, rolling the guilt i felt around and around in my head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  , though, is to contact your EC before Thanksgiving, or even to do it now, if ... additional copies via fax or mail. You can fax the documents to us. All ... Docufide or mail. Documents may be faxed to: (617) 687-9184. You can mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... in the spectra of these compounds which would allow organic chemists to ... he have to skip most of his lectures and problem sets in order to pass

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I ... best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... ) to the professional work we're about to begin. My primary role in this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  drafts leading up to A New Hope show a vast improement in quality ... having one, or do you find that mornings in general are good? BEN: All of ... weak in his battle with Obi-Wan, so the Emperor jumps in to take care of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... , which we do in 6.UAT to learn about things like recovery. What do you do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  serious flaws. Until we are confident in the test's ability to evaluate one ... new material comes in, the folder is returned to the primary reader to ... at all happy about my SAT scores and felt a need to take the TOEFL in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... . See, I used to run. (Used to.) It was back in my freshman year of high

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  I've played in months. You should play it. Or listen to the soundtrack ... hold the jump button to jump higher. You can move while in the air. You ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... easier to get in than stay in. Thoughts?" Once again, Borski '09 answered ... case that it's harder to stay in than to get in. 100% of MIT students

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run it on an agarose gel which sits in an electric field, in order to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is ... see classes, you'll have fewer opportunities to see labs. In part, this ... research at MIT. Similarly, you may or may not have the opportunity to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009