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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about ... most awesome stories, the coolest stuff I found on the Internet, and ... , and all sorts of MIT's lesser known tidbits. Sometimes I get yelled at

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  sleep. Oh, and we worked on problem sets (after which we ate more food ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... Entrepreneurship. Besides providing a massive amount of mentorship, resources and ... community, both from resources and culture, I would not be working on my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  effective as ECs on behalf of the Admissions Office and of course, the ... (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and ... Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... happy. And IAP has come with a fair amount of work, but not nearly enough

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  !" Catch you on the flip side of a p-set and 6.003 test! ... really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  issue of The Tech is out, and includes a story on CPW. It has some photos ... ." They talk back and forth about Sam's dream of becoming an astronaut and ... choice?" President Hockfield: "There is a huge amount of choice at MIT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can ... is lots of construction going on around campus and in Boston; our ... are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... Institute of Tech, Technology, is a good technical school. Math and science ... repair and ship repair and some salvage work. That was kind of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  undergraduates on behalf of their places of employment. And, of course, I snagged a ... putting "CMS & 6" on my handwritten nametag. This gave a lot of people ... died down and registration had actually run out of nametags, which

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  within its floor plans. W91 later saw the installation and later removal of ... upgrades since then, and is now a really pretty building of servers and ... up through floor vents inside of those cordoned-off areas, and chills

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly ... are also keeping close watch on the overall situation and exploring the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  take his class) and his group on the Human Genome Project, perhaps your ... Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  ways and have trouble admitting that I'm wrong. Today, I found out that I was totally wrong about bikes on campus. I've always walked to class and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  ; halohydration, osmylation, reduction, alkylation, and (of course) ozonoloysis. I ... stability, radicals, hyperconjugation, and all sorts of stereochemistry and ... superposition, the concept of linearity, the exponential shift law, and more. Yes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... off the waitlist, and wishing them the best of luck at the college they ... comments to introduce yourself to the rest of your class. And for those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  roll of aluminum foil and covered the first pan as Rick stared on in astonishment. I stopped and asked him why on earth he was so captivated by the ... and I put together the cheese mix, and Rob (just visible in the top of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  still am - I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.), I ... board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... Hampshire suspects Vermont of sneaking across the border and attempting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... drinking less coffee and getting more hours of sleep. This reminds me of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006