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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... and prevent cancer. [...] The project, which might end up with a

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

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  about it via the MIT Class of 2016 Facebook page today, and people were ... .  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... the past week and he's been going there and they gave him all sorts of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... timeline and the remainder of the email (which I've pasted below so you can ... maker space) and used the calipers to measure the buckle of my display

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of the semester, I had spent a lot of time and energy on making sure the ... little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small ... glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass ... inch of glass between the tip of the bubble and the outside of the glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ... -glucose-home within the parking lot of my soul. And should I summon the courage to ... : Weekends at MIT are like the soft, cushiony slices of whole-grain bread

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  A's to gain entry to MIT." I'm not sure of the answer to your first ... are and how they fit into the overall context of your application ... a 2400 and a 2250. The exception would be a breakdown of 800

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  anthropomorphized characters of MIT and Harvard fall in love. I animated some of the ... I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... display this on one of the digital billboards at TD Garden. "More

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  words flowing high and low, full of clever wit and subtle rhyme. The names ... a lot of it was good, a lot of it was glowing.  It was the first time ... playing with the idea of familiar spaces, like coffee shops and the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  . We had lectures for the first two weeks of Momentum and Web Lab. I also ... on good enough, or something like that, because the whole bag of poles ... week of the class) and our challenge was wildfires. My team

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  population (and indeed the student population as a whole) is quite ... compare all of the applications together than to have an early and regular ... are admitted, and the vast majority of students are quite qualified

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  and the river, and headed south towards our first point of interest ... Shuli and I had taken the first time, but instead of heading into the Fens ... three trips, the first of which would be the trek from Next House all the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  Lovecraft and a couple of neuroscience books. What was the first thing you did ... canceled final season of Beauty and the Geek. What did they feed you? All of ... . He just kind of joked around and was the happy good natured guy that he

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  perspective and from my perspective when i first saw the email notification in ... .906 (linguistic study of bilingualism). at the end of last semester, when i first ... , scroll through pages and pages of [annotation note="an email mailing list

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and ... " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been ... order, listed with the Nobel they might win and why they might win it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my ... hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... 's fantastic). The kicker is classes for the rest of the world start first week in March, and ours have been going since the beginning of February, so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  live Mario Kart in the halls of Burton Conner, and why yes, that would be ... decide to drop the class, too. So I go and unpack, get a hold of MY little sister, Srav '13, and make dinner plans with the two of us and Alice

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT ... -variable calculus and the 18.02's are types of multi-variable calculus). I came in ... 'm just going to add up the powers of ten and multiply all the other numbers

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... -existent because of the distinct and critical lack of things to climb. Out in West ... trips to do some "real" climbing, and I hopped on the first one I could

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011