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  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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT ... or CSAIL will give me the tools and the collaborative environment to ... lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• 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
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  [email protected] to see if you are eligible to join us in the fall or get ... to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them ... LTI is on. LTI strives to instill in our students the four cornerstones

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... guaranteed graduation or even just the ability to gather with friends, the ... left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  ://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... States during Fourth of July. (or if I was, I was in little-town Maine for ... take me out to the ball game or casey at the bat. =p The uber

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy ... world, including in India and China, working together to build a plug-in ... in May 2005. Since then, MIT undergrads have done wonders through

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt (or ... friend Maita '13 (her feet featured in Fig. 1C) decided to add a little ... have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011