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• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors ... immunology and has worked at the NIST, and at the NIH human genome research institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and ... catch up on current events through the vast library of Newsweek, Time, and ... dorm. Anyway, I was reading Time's Persons of the Year issue... ...and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  the four I picked all have the same schedule. This kind of sucked, and ... institutions of government and the representation of competing interests. Topics ... steering of the bureaucracy and the economy, and federalism. 17.30: Making

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse ... , hearts, and rice cakes that looked like eyeballs. Some of the more ... of classes, work, and free time. We got a four-day weekend for Columbus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  oxygen on the vacant end of each double bond - and voila, ozonolysis. There ... Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of ... have both seen the Brawl hack with my own eyes and engaged in more than

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  on the steps of 77 Mass Ave: From that moment on, the excitement and ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now:     Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  magnificient. Oh and there were lots of baboons too. We drove into the game ... nearly got charged by a white rhino. I took a lot of photos. And the world ... Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... I've been reading many, many applications over the last month, and ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  . Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of origami mathematics, the formal study of what can be done with a folded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... Confederate sharpshooter, and walking/running the mile of Pickett's Charge while ... railroad capital of the North, was a tremendous strategic location and would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  learn and practice some or all of the following: lightweight composite ... The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom ... 's Department of Materials Science and Engineering created the Breakerspace a year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... I show off our rings while loitering near the potato bar and listening to the band: Here, Albert and Olivia climbed the lions guarding the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... 's “The Garden of Forking Paths” and the professor's (Nick Montfort's) own ... conference [annotation note="in which the class of 2020 got on a boat and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of ... , and that we wish you the very best of luck wherever you choose to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of ... , and that we wish you the very best of luck wherever you choose to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  waitlist, and more. Again, congratulations to the Class of 2009! ... comment: where's the debate? Latkes are clearly superior!] and another Nobel ... your MyMIT portal, where you'll find the Class of 2009 guestbook

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I ... philosophy and a lifelong process. It requires you to first of all find out who ... just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012