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• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  -scholastic" has been causing some confusion, based on web comments and phone calls ... belong, but don't stress out over it. McGreggor and I also brainstormed a ... Roll) Awards linked to a class or department (e.g. History department

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , along with several other 2E people, built a music player web app for 2E ... workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  were no longer little pictures at the top of a web page. They're real ... simply a formality. Oh, and sleeping is overrated. Here's just a quick ... a funny story that I'll share shortly). So, from the beginning: I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  years ago- but the website has thankfully undergone a dramatic improvement in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2 ... data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  all, the web address is displayed in a splashy font across the front of ... of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... that this happened quite a while ago. My days have been filled with RA

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the ... it is you need a shoe horn to get their heads through the door) This

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  , MIT grad Dr. David Berry knows a thing or two about success. Though he ... a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• 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

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub specialty of Mechanical Engineering called Course “2A”) and I’ve only now been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  Society In 11.c35, we worked in teams to create a web-based “visualization ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... them really rewarding, with a generally fair amount of assignments, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  is connected in a web of yarn: a pretty cool visualization of how ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... off one thing after another. Until, they eventually travel a full circle

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very ... can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  . I also met with George, a sophomore with whom I'll be working on a Web ... I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  last summer. it was a web development thing, and it's not that i disliked ... seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  words. A short article about web design and words. G103. A hilarious short ... While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  also mentioned that I did "prospective student outreach through a web ... for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17-year-old undergrad applicant and me as a 21-year-old grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  Lab and Web Development Things I recently purchased a very tiny React course ... on the quiz -- for reference, I got a 0 on last quiz. I began to ... taking it again, but I still felt very numb. I had a "wellness check

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020