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• 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 / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . I need to reminder myself of how delicate our perceptions are. How ... to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  how many times you think you are going to visit MIT. In general, the ... DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT ... . There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  possible to really be too honest? How far should I really go into expressing ... application tracking. How can i get to know when it has arrived? Can you suggest ... are better able to demonstrate it on an application than others. How do

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• 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