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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  -edged sword. One side of this sword is that the large scope of courses you can ... and outside of college, it feels like you can be chained to what your ... cognition. But since I have till about May to make a choice, you can catch me

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  2008 is very tempting.) The only advice I can give you regarding ... party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to ... have fun with it. I'm very jealous that I can't be on campus with you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  directions tissue engineering can go. One direction is where you engineer artificial organs, and the other direction is where you use tissue engineering ... Buzz. 8. Roommate hits you before you can hit the snooze button. Maybe

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... you get in this Pi Day, I hope that you are happy today, and that you ... Day five years ago. In the weeks and years preceding, getting into MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information ... recommendation forms, what are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of ... advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... a lecture hall, we had to report to Walker, where there were rows and ... anything you could do sitting in a lecture hall, which was even more

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past ... . First, a quick background just so you guys know where I am coming from. I ... project, who seems very hopeful that a lot can come from a space where

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book so many times before you just can't read it anymore. And that is when ... , it's what i do. i can't look at p53 pathways anymore. and if you don

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY! YOU DON'T ACTUALLY CHOOSE YOUR PERMANENT LIVING GROUP UNTIL ORIENTATION! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very ... day out. there was a puzzle club event around noon, where we solved

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM ... ? Where would they be coming from? What would be their approach to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  't watch Arrested Development, you will not get this), and he looked at me in ... low budget Disney world where you're exploring Austria in the 1800s ... 'll save you the story of my (entirely satisfactory, as always) visit to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  impossible, because no matter what you do, someone else thinks they can do it a ... call you.) so after getting my diploma I got to spend a lot of time ... didn't include any where she was making a rude gesture. =) Then came an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  you can't just stick your eye into a radio telescope; nowadays ... to the end of the post, if you want to get straight to the punchline ... , the total signal gets stronger and stronger as you add up more and more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read ... cream and root beer. And most of you know what happened next - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  to get a bio phd compared to chemistry and physics phds is that you ... Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry ... . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  is an annual event at East Campus every IAP where  people get the ... Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more ... take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Neil Armstrong. On the Seal shank you can find the curiosity rover :D ... . Thus on the Boston Skyline, you can see a Delorean making it's appearance ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013