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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  . Susumu Tonegawa, who's a Nobel laureate, taught 9.301, and Rudolf Jaenisch, who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... Name: Mollie Burgoon Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through ... hands-on, practical experience. I now know how to use a sphygmomanometer ... off for no reason. =) A sphygmomanometer is the device you use to take a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  that last one up), but it mostly just boils down to you getting hosed by ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to ... to do, whether it’s a chore around the house or something for work. So

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  . Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to ... to "proove" to you that it's not a reflection on you, rather it's an ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... to do a less chewing and a lot more moving. ... I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... This Sunday is the infamous East Side Party, which is open to the MIT ... working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical ... wrote to a friend (oversentimentally as always--that's me! No limit ... , threatening to bloom. A spring can be pressed or pulled but returns to its

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• 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 / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  Ok Early Action accepted students (AKA prefrosh), stay by your phones ... is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... 're going to become a Pokemon trainer -- you'll be catching them on your i ... -- yeah, don't make that face, I know you want to drop classes that begin

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  GERMANY!! To entertain you, though, here are a few random finals quotes that ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Jimmy (left) works on Groups, a great way to connect with other beginning ... companies like Bloomberg and Intuit were up to.. and we made a brief ... around your touch. We made sure to take a look at more MIT projects

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at ... /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005