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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the place - fooood is gooood. And, of course, THE SOX.Favorite movies: The ... River is awesome, and the fact that MIT is right on the riverfront

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  kinds of questions: post your question on MO and an expert will probably ... about it on MO, and the author of the textbook answered me with an ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  excellent job of getting everyone's viewpoints and keeping us on track. The ... the class of 2011 on certain issues using a survey and incorporate their ... incorporate on the ring. For example, the ideas of the owl and of including a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  of online and written out problems that are due on Tuesday nights ... due on Sunday and Tuesday of each week, and then you meet with your ... people and even wrote college essays on the topic. Tragically, I am here

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  reading an article that I disagree with and thinking, "Some of these words ... ; I'm also wary of involving myself in arguments on social media. I ... Three Classes ended yesterday, and I cleaned up the notes on my i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  , and would get to work on lots of cool projects related to my interests ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  on this soon), and all of these worms kept existing. I'm certain in ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... Monday; registration for classes was on Tuesday, and then classes started Wednesday. On the Tuesday before classes started, for one of the many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  've always dreamed of being! And if you have any tips or recommendations, they ... field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class to try and learn any computer science related things, specifically out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  although three of my five classes this term are recommended and required for ... limits of our knowledge every day - and that's why I'm so excited to be ... Office get a sense of what your passions are and how you have explored them

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about ... night in spring 2005), and a lot of times in between. I guess I'm a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam ... and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday ... live Mario Kart in the halls of Burton Conner, and why yes, that would be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  y or any of the numerous other sentiments that focus on the status of a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost ... communication failure modes. and as a consequence, most of my thoughts on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  our heads of house and they joined us for dinner with their entire ... turkeys, combined 35 lbs of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and more boxes of ... "Delicious food" "Better than home" "My favorite dorm event" "I was

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  will consider our waitlist "closed" and do not expect to admit any additional students this year for the Class of 2015. Thanks to all of you on ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  World Maker Faire New York about how we admit and empower these kinds of ... We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Friday Luncheon. A close friend of ESG's 8.012/8.022 Professor Paola, he sat with us and answered any question we threw his way. Taking the most ... first year at MIT has flown by and it's about time I update you guys on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  increased by 1.1°C (2.0°F), and 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurred ... impact on the environment than any other food we eat, and some scientists ... Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017