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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a program that I'd introduced here). The eight Youth Advocates and our two ... impossible to process that this was it, maybe the last time I’m seeing these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  I know, I know, I graduated like 4 months ago, why am I still here? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting ... looking at the college admissions process from the other angle (I like to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have ... -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... high-profile work I had done for Amtrak. I am e-mailing you on the off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  . Yesterday I overcame yet another longtime fear and gave blood. I couldn't help ... World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  , and is a crazy thrifter (he actually has the craziest finds i've ever ... simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and ... into sorbet. I feel like at this point, you would start to wonder if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  trouble following these tips, I recommend reading CMU / Parallel Universe. It's a great example showing everything I'm talking about! 1. Begin ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  sunny weather for this week. I should preface this by saying: I love CPW. I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much from them as I could before I started my own venture. Then on late ... over will be there." So, I made a mental pro's and con's list:  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don’t know falsettos or crescendos or if the two are even related, but I know that whatever they are, I love listening to them. I admire music and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do ... to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  bubble up during Finals Week. By “antics,” I mean something as innocuous as ... a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up ... roommate's uncle. Even further sleuthing, by which I mean opening the box

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  As you may already be aware, today is Ben's birthday! I won't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  Wow, that last post was short. I didn't even tell you what I'm doing ... microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus ... -making supplies, which I am a HUGE fan of), a soccer field (and team!), a very good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... there involved minimal effort. If I could cross campus for a Baker party ... pure laziness. 2:02 PM - Brain function starts returning. Hmm, I have two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say "finally" because I'm pretty sure I actually bought the book at the MIT Press

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  rockstar. Hawk Cam Have you guys seen the hawk-cam yet? Funny story - I ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... . :-) Reason #261 That I Would Live In EC If They'd Let Me Because they build

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next apparently represent the largest college applicant pool ever nationwide. As I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005