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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  goal is to put your satellite in three different columns of air and try ... know that if you get a skeleton to kill a creeper, it drops a music disc? jenny: yep! i tried getting some, but i got blown up by a creeper for the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... see if I wanted to go to math graduate school. By that point, no math ... to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work. And we, the MIT students, get to show off our lives to a willing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now ... this EA decision. It may not feel like it if you get in, and you're not ... pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean ... ! Outside now, I wandered over to the site of the new Media Lab extension ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  . Don't rely solely on your 2400 SAT/36 ACT scores to get you into MIT ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  financial engineering. "Our overall goal at Sloan is to spur innovation by ... industry to develop and test the new financial techniques and technologies ... advantage of the new minor in mangement, or even to people not affiliated at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  socially at your own pace. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I called ... your first semester at MIT. Contrary to what one may believe from the ... word for it, you will extremely appreciate it. It is so easy to get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be ... decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  to get somebody to guess "stick pickles into your nose and ears?" The ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... person has 60 seconds to get their team to guess as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  making and trying new things. Instead of being scared to ask for help, I ... DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on ... cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... open to new opportunities and new friendships and I try to take chances ... ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... to bind adiponectin." By identifying and isolating those special cells ... specific lab, it's in your best interest to speak to the professor directly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  with administrators to get the harsh new policy replaced with this policy ... . So is anyone ever going to update the online IHTFP hack gallery? I get ... to me. If you think you're such a l337 h4Xx0r who could do so much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to smooth surfaces by taking advantage of intermolecular forces, which ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , adapted to, put neatly in its new spot in the revised status quo. Bad change ... to the idea of carpe diem, seize the day, chase your dreams, and other ... you’ve always wanted to try, to experiment with your likes, dislikes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015