Search

Search Results

• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... sincerely apologize if she wasn't able to sign your forms after I skipped out ... earlier tonight while waiting for iTunes to load*. *Not that this is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge ... foundation. Ask any young Cantabridgian to expound on collagen, but s/he may not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil ... of fresh water is waning. There are several natural reactions to these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office ... consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... (except November scores, which we expect to receive shortly), and, if ... time. We will wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the ... movements they want to experiment with from their own environment and paint

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... ’t either).          It’s upsetting to walk past rooms that belonged to ... interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... weeks have been much like a take-off. The packing. The uneventful sitting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... , not recorded Which are both pretty much okay, since you’re a freshman ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home, so let me do my best to help you understand. When I got to campus we

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  obvious solution to this dilemma. As much as I love writing, creative ... first semester senior who just decided to change her major around, this ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  sacrificing too much else. As for me, I'm trying to keep things low-key during ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005