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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old ... discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered ... to disagree. Many sentences begin with “I will argue” or “I will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  , 'but you have to be a good communicator to be put in charge of large ... Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  to rigorous AP or university-level classes in our Junction and Delve ... (because my classes started so late), haha, but I went to sleep earlier in ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... future competitions and applications! Whether or not we compete in a sub ... development. It’d be an awesome opportunity to make connections in the robotics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... to receive email or phone calls from our office, etc). Consolidating ... from one list to the other, in this case from the admit list to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  first assignment was to profile a person or a place in about two minutes ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... got in. Fast forward to now, and putting yourself out there is still

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• 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 / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  . 11:40 AM: Walk to first class, Disease and Society in America ... : Shar, friend in 5.112, leans over to say that their regular professor is ... as to whether or not to add 5.112, seeing as the first half of 5

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006