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• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? It ... glanced at the stone passageway in front of me, my bicycle locked to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  acquainted with all we have to offer."]CPW.[/annotation] There is no rush at ... easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... have even had AP Biology offered at your school. It is these differences

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home ... my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... the numbers of every major or building at MIT. I like to use the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing acronym. at the beginning of every academic year, the mit list visual arts

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... lettuce at many of the major grocery stores in the area. At Whole Foods, a package of Little Leaf lettuce is $3.99; at Market Basket, $2.99; and at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  T. '02. At this point, the graph of connections was already getting ... popularity of The Simpsons in Third West at the time, coupled with the pun of ... versatile one at that: it can be a large piece of trash or an MIT graduate. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life ... career. I’m really trying though, to at least let the rest of the world

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , someone took notice of Milk and stared at his expiration date—October 20 ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015