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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  sequence analyzers, is new and better than what is available at MIT". Do you ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... transfection mix. I use Excel, because my postdoc's calculator is sketchy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... shelf.* This is a wonderful book - it captures the lifestyle perfectly. Me ... comes to MIT and leaves knowing what he or she loves, then we have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... across the country!). I’ve participated in HackMIT, which is a large ... at MIT. The program is part of the larger STARS (Small Town and Rural

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post, I expanded the MIT-education-as-fire-hose-drinking metaphor by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students—are an integral part of making MIT the special place that it is. ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It ... beyond the dense trees crowding the river and parks. The spring is cold

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT ... parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Orientation is some ice breakers and a 90-minute safety presentation. But this is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  biodiesel." “At MIT, ChemE, Course 10, is known as the most difficult major ... , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure.” “I think MIT is the best at everything.” “It’s a fantastic place, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT. I can't tell you whether it is worth it. Not while knowing that I ... , it is most definitely going to be hard to leave MIT. But I definitely ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  –-and you absolutely should! Getting into MIT is indeed an accomplishment ... ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... 've had with people from the MIT community, nearly everyone has the same

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  is really like, I wrote a 250 word essay. Not on MIT's prompts, though ... a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... short-answer system that MIT adopted. A few months ago, I created a bogus

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  and others this may be an unsatisfying explanation. MIT is a community ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with ... immigrants. “Ten years ago, they beat MIT,” reads a headline on AZ Central

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  to MIT, more or less equidistant from Central, Harvard, and Inman ... season. One of my biggest lessons of 2015 (and 2014 and 2013 and 2012) is ... Middle Earth or Discworld or National City. Tonight is Old New Year’s Eve

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... MIT at all. Fencing room: This is self-explanatory. I spent MANY hours ... people who read them. That's where this post differs. It is probably not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021