Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... by chocolate. Someone else confirmed that there was a meaty flavor that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... -research course, to be called “MIT and Slavery.” Led by Professor Wilder and MIT ... a brief break from committee to attend a live webcast and discussion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been a bit more than two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline ... . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

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

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... 'm actually taking the class on junior/senior P/D/F, so I'll just get a passing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... best. 2. Get a good night's sleep. Every night. I've been in lab as late

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT homepage

  

  By the way, if you haven't been to the MIT homepage today, you should check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... encourage students to get used to talking with them, they'll take any kind of ... to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and ... “girly girls” were smart. When I grew up a little I started to feel the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

   or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... Dubai to Ahmedabad. Half-asleep, I then got in a taxi and drifted in and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012