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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  want to remember from that November. Talk of all the miserable and joyful ... students learned the math of music. And everyone got a chance to project ... on top of a hill and at night the woods around were spooky and fabulous

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  program." Why would MIT do this? And isn't there a big risk? The curator of ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  about the first time he was part of the reenactment, in 2001. He had never ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... just we cyclists, and we soared over the pavement, thrilled to use

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games ... straight to the bus for our first game of this week — an away game at Lesley ... make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  , pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... people off of a registry. And saying the word 'registry'. What I really ... . Regardless of the fact that I've spent four years here and still feel like I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  in the car and took off along the scenic drive, the vehicle in front of ... was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we ... reached the first of 75 overlooks; Raphael (the driver) pulled our car off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... take a leap of faith. After all, the contract is with the landlord, and ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  fuel, of course, but Aunt Jen got to it first and made some stock instead ... witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two ... appetizing. Unless, of course, you believe the twelfth or so verse of "We Are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... REMARKS Susan Hockfield, President, MIT 9:20-9:50am OVERVIEW OF THE ENERGY ... - Science and policy of climate change * Leon R. Glicksman - Buildings * John

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  . If you wish, you may now fill out the conducted interview form and we ... : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of ... MIT doe snot use the Common App; submission of materials works in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... swung in their favor, and they won the title of National Headquarters for ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already ... just two weeks of living here, I’ve painted my room for the first time in ... feeling of calm when you suddenly step into the building and see the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  that I might pop back in every now and then if the occasion's right ... . They'll also receive the support of a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen high-profile NGOs. In short, the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  promise! Clearly, I'm from Texas :) And the first snow of the 2009 ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... international student and has experienced the challenges first-hand. But, he ... ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team ... handed out paper plates to everyone, and the half of the lecture hall ... geometry prowess to explore the natural superiority of hamentashen. First, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those ... of the trottoir and have to wait a minute for your train, or for ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  didn't just snap a picture of the gel itself. First, I did that in the lab, and it would've been weird taking off my gloves in the middle of 9 ... were some...issues in loading the first couple of samples. It's hard to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  a lot about the design and fabrication of complex machinery, then you ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in ... just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006