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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  can't say that I know the location of any in the surrounding cities. 3 ... freshman exams were the easiest ones." "Let's hope so!" "I could go in there ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  , but if I can finish all of them, I’ll consider myself decently on my way ... campus one single time, I consistently have no idea what building I’m in ... complete - gym registration usually opens at 8 AM, and when I logged in at 8

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I felt a bundle of knots in my stomach and I braced myself because it's almost time. Almost time to see Kenneth. I hadn't seen Kenneth in a while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  many pertinent questions were asked in the last entry, I figured I'd base ... . I'll post an official number when I can. Oren asked, "I'm assuming you ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  exciting in them! CPW is in two weeks. I can’t wait to see all the incoming ... same week, and in some cases the same day, and I felt overwhelmed beyond ... break. So, with second semester in full swing, I had about 5 midterms in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... world, and people sent in truly wonderful digital artifacts, so i

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... 's all, "Oh, I'll just do it tonight! Maybe you can come over and we can ... internship from Bayer. I can't really tell because the e-mail Dr. Berka

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... miles. source: Wikipedia) In addition, I... Rode around in a convertible ... writing class to know the rest. In other news, I've been running around

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is impossible!” and back again. But true to my procrastinatorial roots, I can ... , five 1-or-2 hour sessions later, I can show you somewhat close to what I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... follow the other path I was considering where I'd stay in Paris.MIT gave me

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... my major. Plus, you can't really beat the weather--I ran up what must

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  enjoy about the subject, and I hope they can be useful to you in deciding ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... relevant to the subfield that each student prefers. I say it's "been" in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point ... , because I still think in Python-influenced data structures, years after 6 ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... , and desire to learn. Once you are in MIT, you can use the Institute ... find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  home, and what falls in between. And yet, while I stress about what I ... , I am also currently freaking out in every possible way right now. I ... happening as well. I hope that everyone can stay safe and well. <3

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... allow people I didn’t even know affect my experience in Hyderabad. It seems fairly obvious, and in most ways in my usual life it was, but I had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... can imagine, this was super unsustainable. It was the first time that I ... realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004