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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi-dimensional puzzle; and in our post-genomic age, it has become an INFORMATION SCIENCE

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT ... history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the ... spring, I applied to a bunch of summer programs, and it made perfect sense

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... same rules apply - but the deadline is August 31st instead of July 31st ... applying EA or RA, please send me a supplemental email answering any of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  Podcasts 21W.035: Science Writing and New Media: Elements of Science ... Biologists and Engineers 20.586: Science and Business of Biotechnology 20 ... .105: Ethics for Biologists and Engineers 20.586: Science and Business of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  sort of math and science. Walking through the new Center for Theoretical ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  Sciences from MIT. I can see the light. I CAN SEE IT. IT IS SO SO CLOSE. Of ... On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science, he entered the Harvard ... As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  the MIT server, but most can also apply to other servers of the game ... with a degree. There are also a number of subquests for the main quest ... , sleep (pick two). Right now I have all three - a wonderful group of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  schools like Bx Science and Madison. Since none of them prepared speeches ... because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  incredible amount of math and science in four years without any upperclassmen ... frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... ). I'm not a very good photographer, but here are a few images of campus ... attendance, including: Political Science department head Prof. Charles Stewart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... for Hank, and he had answers. What is your favorite topic of science or ... science, and I also watched a ton of SciShow as a young boy, hoping it would

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... volunteer at the MIT Science Olympiad. Being on the other side of all the ... ’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research ... , for the record, I don't believe that 80% of Caltech's professors can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  experience with another year of mathematical maturity and computer science ... visit the computer science office to discuss my prospects of double ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad ... getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025