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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  checking out the most beautiful girl in the lab (see below). ....just kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room with the nice gray couch. I want to put posters without worrying about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience ... CPW. And that I made the decision to walk up to Bryan despite not having seen him since the fifth grade. And that you took the initiative in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is ... our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger ... info I want to give away on the internet about this particular subject

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The traditional wedding march is from Wagner's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like ... are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along with my friend Sally M. '16, I spent the next few hours CNC machining two

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... had warned me): the building numbers make little, or no, sense! I ended up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their field. And we have the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program doing all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... experience has expanded my outlook on life and the world. But first, I think

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  fire and a vengeance! And a whopping three (3) weeks into the semester ... as follows: 7.06 - Cell Biology  This is the last class I have to take in the core bio track ([annotation note="Gen Bio, a GIR (required

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get to the lake shore, it’s just us and the geese under a cloudy sky. We

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... . It’s cold and dark and quiet outside; the river has frozen over; some mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... thoroughly believed that I just could not learn the content deeply, no matter

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  the notion of squad wealth has been increasing in popularity recently and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... of due to the inevitability of group conflict and breakup, and because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021