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• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  top things, because everything i need to do gets done, and i'm no ... the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me ... school. Nothing to get depressed over, really. I guess it's clear that ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  would do tomorrow. We agreed upon getting up around 8:15 (blasphemy!) to ... 2 AM, and I headed back to McCormick to get some sleep. The next day, Judy, Kevin, and I met up in Next House to get waffles. Kevin went a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... interest me without having to think about grades. I always look forward to going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... Astro sophomores get an all-expenses-paid field trip, touring all the major aerospace

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... will take. In addition, I want to get a concentration in Music." I totally DID NOT do anything this cool to get into MIT. Just FYI, ya'll. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to ... bad), we managed to get the chunks into the moat, grabbed a few branches ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , but that's enough to get me excited. f. Cambridge Side Galleria ... get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... . I transfect the cells, which means that I get them to take up a ... -labeled antibodies. I get to go into lab tomorrow (SATURDAY) and transfect some COS7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  [annotation note="or as close to that as we're getting right now ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  read and get acquainted with the various seating options. I picked up a copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  meetings and started reading different papers to get a better idea of what I ... . Without classes this month to focus on, I started working under some ... different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  to wander betwixt all the floors, get even more free food (with the ... side of Burton Conner, known as Conner 3, was fortunate enough to get ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  up this morning excited to verify the existence of this thing you call ... stop telling malicious lies. Thank you. Yours, JKim

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... through [annotation note="the time each performer gets to stage + run ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023