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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  : Please keep in mind that these results are preliminary - the results in ... full results from last year’s poll can be found here, if you’re interested. Depending on how many poll results come back in, there will be an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for this post I'm going to highlight one result in particular: Some might ... for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11 ... otherwise know about or visit. By teaching astronomy for 7-12 year olds, I met ... got to meet and work with a group of K-12 public-school teachers. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  Penn’s decision date when the results for the AMC12  contest were ... score from 11th grade had been 2080. It was possibly the reason Penn had ... be considered with the rest of my application. Awesome! March 29th

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -dimensional house and rearrange it into a square of the same area. 1.1 Definition I ... congruence by dissection and scissors congruence. 1.2 Definition II ... , stemming from the two-dimensional polygon result. In 1844 Gerling showed (and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... ) and add my DNA mix to each well. 5 hours, 37 deg C. 11:10 AM. I go back ... the tube to 42 deg C, then plate the cells. 37 deg C, overnight. 11

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario ... health issues that may come as a result of the high expectations and high

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  if I wanted to (including what would have been 12th grade). I was ... result of smart peers is that your professors will have very high

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  improve any English mistakes. Her reaction to my acceptance on March 14th ... major: 11 (Urban Studies and Planning) Janet Previous institution ... the given prompts. Luana: In November 2021, I began the process of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  never had to work that hard. I was getting results I was happy with, and ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... repair results of your specific cut topology? I mean it’s your precious ... clear visual results. Oh god wait—is that a formatting inconsistency

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it ... they were doing as a result of it. I found people who deeply felt that ... someone’s head, is not lost on me. Partially as a result of this, I like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... wall in Building 14 highlighted several economists such as Joshua Angrist

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  result of them being women, and that some aspect of their womanhood has brought on this result. The question of interest, then, becomes “which ... results. And gaps between men’s and women’s scores on some spatially

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... status. This is my second status update on the platform, posted on June 14

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  would spend my ENTIRE LIFE conflicted, and as a result never actually ... a friend. Sam '14 has been one of my best friends since CPW - since ... , hit "2", and counted down the seconds left of my dignity. I marched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  [/annotation] in half. The resulting images didn’t look too great, but at least they ... current instead. This was the final result: Fabricating the solar cell ... .[/caption] [image_grid images="86589,86590" caption="Viewing the results under a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... corridors of the building, with the result that many of the rooms were flooded ... about, telling the inhabitants 'to watch '93 at 11:30.'"

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  fantasy movies or shows. 12:47 - 14:17 Nerf Warfare Negotiations have ... a hero? 12:47 - 14:17 Applied Knot Theory An introduction to the ... slow bridge loops with Mika B. ‘14 and David D. SM ‘08, and I spent it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011