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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the highly maneuverable fins of the Bluegill sunfish: all of these natural

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series of Firefly, which I got for Christmas, with my sister - Seen King Kong

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... prospective students of the obvious merits of MIT?" Campus Preview Weekend (CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or ... qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the ... times[/annotation], played all of the prequels/sequels that [annotation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... thought but nary a blog. My solution has been to throw all of my random

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... again a team of drastically more boys than girls.   The first ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS classes, but not capable of taking four science classes (friend: "why are ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... representation of student life, providing prospective students and applicants with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in charge of ... three weeks, I've been spending most of my free time on medical school

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011