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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... use them, learn how to here. But consider what Kurt Vonnegut said: “Here ... Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education ... about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal conversion of turkey offal to see how the project was coming along. Since Andy ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  compound reactions or how to build rockets - and we want everyone else to be ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling ... option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  're obligated to blog about it. Me: Definitely! But how can I construe it as ... responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  wrong with it.) I learned how to use a power drill and table saw at the ... was that studying engineering taught you how to solve problems, and isn ... train me to think analytically about systems – both how to design them and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I don't know how I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm terrified. I really ... I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  note="if this isn't an indication of how determined i was to play the ... shinra feed to tell us how to defeat the reactor"]one of the characters[/annotation] on how the battle mechanics worked and then we actually got to play the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  consensual safe sex". They have a lot of information about kinks and how to ... this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  how much I learned, how much time seems to have flown now. But beyond ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  me happy. :) So what am I taking? (Man, do I know how to get off track ... when I dropped physics. Someone asked how it was possible to pick up a ... , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  , instructions come from the phone on how to operate the AED, call 911, deliver CPR ... students were divided into 8 teams. Each team had three months and $7000 to ... &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  hands-on, practical experience. I now know how to use a sphygmomanometer ... almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  's always at 1% battery   [Email to Kayode Dada, 10:05 PM, 7/22/2024] Today, sorbet made me think about how important it is to keep going. Fruit sorbet is incredibly easy to make. You freeze some cut up fruit, and then

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up talking to for a bit about how he became interested in jewelry making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and ... ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019