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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm unable to fit the last open section into my schedule. You know how ... what I'll do about that class if this is how it's going to be. Update! This is how it's going to be. Prof Belcher's schedule does not permit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  we also know how to enjoy life when we're not doing coursework (and ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the world!), there will be an opportunity to relive CPW through the various

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  around media development while learning how to craft cutting edge media ... bit about Untravel Media - what it is, how it began, etc. I had to write ... visit. How has your MIT education influenced/helped you in regard to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  concerns is how good is my accademcal education up to this point versus the ... out? The website just says 'July'..." We expect to receive this year's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  and kinda freaking out because I felt like I had forgotten how to make ... ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations   You may be wondering how, with all students being varying ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  class follow-up to 2.009. 2.009 introduces you to how products are made ... specifically at technology and how it affects culture. From surveillance to ... understand things makes it easy to understand how the world is so complex

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  that Frau Bittner used to wear, how Professor Virk compares drag reduction to the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and how Professor Dalzell is ... 7.06 that she was going to explode, how Professor Sadighi would say "y

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  surprising number of freshmen did not know how to do these things...o_o” Mom ... supportive. How did she know that we weren't going to win? In the end, though ... I grew older, I realized how grateful I should be to have my mom. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  to read.  I am always evaluating myself on how I am doing. I am usually ... I am still trying to find answers on how to balance that well.    ... mostly miserable. I had already decided to apply to the Admissions Blogs at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  blogger application, to finally take on this vlogging challenge. I will be vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... this hiatus; I can't express enough how much I love being part of this ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... how cool and entertaining everything was I remember her looking me dead ... me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  this summer" post...) Meanwhile, as the summer comes to an end, how was ... been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... 're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  How long has it been since I last blogged? So long that it took me 9 tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I ... applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine ... have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they tested our ability to give presentations by asking us to design our own

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  , though, is how to format a résumé as a freshman. You've just graduated from ... typo last fall... oops. Print it out to see how it looks on paper, and ... jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016