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• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage ... makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design ... five day program, we introduce the freshman to the world of product ... , and some visits to firms like Eleven, THE MEME, and even a hardware

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... not a brain in a vat put on the earth to do math at things in ... -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational ... the meeting, the ECs had the opportunity to address the audience. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  women carry huge buckets of waters on their shoulders, stepping to the ... take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  diverse and talented group of individuals who use the space to work on any ... . (Besides, I'd like to see the matriculation rate after a CPW modeled on 4 ... members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture ... , very little idea where to go, and I didn't know anyone. On the morning ... in the communities that needed fuel. She works with students on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... remember to leave Adam a shopping list, so he could go to the store on his ... synaptic cleft and bind to receptors on the outside of the postsynaptic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the Nov. 1 ... sent to MIT through Naviance, fax or mail will not appear as submitted on the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to follow the progress of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... that shows how the process works: GLASS from Mediated Matter Group on ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To ... blog post to announce that and explain why.  As you may know, the wait

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  peeled on the myMIT portal. Sign the guestbook to introduce yourself to ... First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... !). 15. Sometime soon (on Tuesday), The Tech will publish an article about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first time, visit Mike's Pastry. (I *actually* wanted to go to the North End ... to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006