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• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he'd simply raise his left arm high over his head and point to his watch with

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to look cool. It probably failed, considering I was the only person ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  either choose a career or a family and failing to choose will only lead to ... Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  semester. Juniors and seniors also get to take two classes on pass/fail ... This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... to discuss freshman grading. The background Hopefully you know about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  means being vulnerable and admitting that you’re failing a little… and folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  semester, failing a class or two, and are struggling to finish second ... 4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  failed for good I am back to having all those B's With one test, I will ... goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  mechanics in high school and didn't entirely fail, I expected to feel like a ... going to have to take this class eight times, fail each one, and ... Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  , who wrote about it here. This is the best tool to plan your academic ... completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7 ... courses, recitation sessions, or checking when it's best to take a certain

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  going to be smarter than me and I'm going to fail and I AM SO SCARED ... have to take his Unified finals, because he would have failed them. And ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10 ... short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  GREATEST, and I am going to continue to be the GREATEST", and then they fail ... Two exams down, one to go. Well, strictly speaking, 462 units down, 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a

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

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  . This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time. Said illusion is currently failing to function. Case in point: Where did ... After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... looking to dive into a theoretical physics book. Truth be told, you're looking to do something as mindless as possible. And this is where my

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007