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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  exploring the interaction between my protein and one of the proteins I found ... of the actin cytoskeleton, which is involved in learning and memory ... Lander (the god of the Human Genome project and intro biology instructor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of ... flashes of thunder and lightning had me jumping out of my seat. The museum ... stretch of sidewalk didn't have a crosswalk and the time was ticking down

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... education - and this will tell you about much of the rest. 2:00pm–4:00pm ... :00pm-2:00pm Housemasters' Brunch. Come meet all of the faculty and staff

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  . You're going to be the one who has to take charge of that. And there ... some more, or... And that's okay. Because if you're the kind of person ... is, the best school for me. For many of my friends and classmates

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  this too honestly too much of this some of this and a sad amount of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read ... . a virgin door closeup on the flair featuring two years worth of door

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  follow the progress of your application and please allow five days for ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... their materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... inside, happily working towards admitting the Class of 2011. Tomorrow, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... can also be full of unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward ... . Some of you may have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  from two actual members of the MIT Class of 2010! Thanks for stopping by, Quentin and Kallie! At today's meeting of the faculty, it was proposed ... rank does not affect our decision. And at schools like the one in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of the Worlds (opening night, mind you), and then proceeded to watch 4 episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  students give presentations on their research and the chair of the admissions ... and faculty members of the Cell/Developmental Biology division at the ... 've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the ... to slow the breakdown of pectin in the potatoes is pretty cool). As ... . Meanwhile, I caught the perfect lighting and discovered that everyone I know

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... Friday night, after 7.5 hours of traveling (via T, Greyhound, walking, and NJ transit) and basically crashed. Saturday morning, we ate the best

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  alter the angle, firmness of grip, where you hold the chalk, and even how ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street.   I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan ... 's about going and building things. When you walk out [of MIT], the most

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and ... learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your ... and worthwhile; the blogs are a specific example of the general case

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  computer and actually help run the campaign of the man they wanted in the ... obstacles of the past- time, space, wealth- and remake the world with the ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about microloans and microfinance. Relatedly, you really should check out the work being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... 'll be spending most of my summer days, chilling with centrifuges and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011