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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  's last biology lecture of the semester. Only at MIT does one of the world ... chemistry lectures -- they're far better than you think. Don Sadoway, MIT ... MIT is absinthe used to demonstrate the real-life relevance of binary

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  everyday (which I basically did at MIT during the school year anyways ... nice break from the rigors of MIT during the term. Whee - no physics for ... return to MIT. I'm living in Baker this summer, in a room with really poor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT ... station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health ... , and polymer chemists and mechanical engineers at MIT. They’re now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  , at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the ... places: TYPICAL DAY AT MIT (SPRING 2007) 9am - 10am Hit the snooze button ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it ... last box on my “101 Things To Do Before Graduating from MIT.” And, lucky ... (except for “How do I get into MIT?” I still don’t know what to say to that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... thing you could do would be to come here, stay with an MIT student, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now ... . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too. On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... LSC (MIT's student-run 'movie theater' in one of the big lecture halls.) They were some of my most exciting and carefree days at MIT. Once classes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... correct answers. That is not uncommon for MIT. Today in UROP Andy presented ... groups", etc. Does MTG count? I don't think so because when I visited MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Manisha wrote, "Does MIT require a Mid Year School Report from International ... to send in a Mid-Year Report. One of MIT's application brochures says I ... when reviewing my app? When scores are sent from the college board to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  might have, probably if you're Jewish, is about Hillel at MIT. Let me tell you, Hillel is very active at MIT. They wouldn't stop writing, calling, and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... will you give my application a boost? MIT could really use some foot ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  to provide her own answer). Sara Campbell asked "It's cool that MIT ... 'd be lost with all those options! Does MIT compensate and have other ... hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... 2010 - welcome to the MIT Admissions blogging community. We hope that you ... leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever ... him to arrive. He breaks down on a regular basis, much like MIT students

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  having revisited the movie in my first month at MIT, the themes were stark ... romanticization felt tangible. I spent hours watching MIT vlogs on Youtube ... enough, MIT was the picturesque landscape for the indie movie I convinced

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT ... sculpture of MIT) 📸 Sara N. ‘28 from Union, Kentucky, who regrets her middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I ... .2060. (Yes, we still do some things on paper at MIT.) A digital oscilloscope

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023