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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut ... platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not ... wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  you’re ever disoriented, the Green Building makes a pretty good landmark ... Part 1 here (1) Because sometimes when you’re heading home after a long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... preponements, a fancy term for moving the exams to an earlier date. Preponements ... to work and study. The term hasn't quite ended yet! To give you guys a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour ... 'm headed to my last class of a day, an hour-and-a-half lecture ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  quite a common problem. We do ask you to write in your standardized test ... )." So it's quite alright to write in a future date without a score, as ... is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model ... have to build a full working prototype of your product in the span of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  coming from the star to the Earth to dip, which is a possible sign that ... , so we got to present a poster! Considering that this was my first ... whispered to me, "That person is a BEAST." [caption id="attachment_102088

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... the opportunities available to the student body as a whole. But now I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  going to come home with half a novel written, this time.   June 4th ... wore all the time in high school, and a dress with a cut similar to one I ... to the docks to Reffen, a market with food stalls from all corners of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a ... DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then ... the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  : A toughie, but I managed to answer most of the problems =) If you'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a ... I'm currently studying for what might turn out to be my last ever

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  to break my heart in a lot of ways. Anyway... Tonight feels like xmas eve. I distracted myself with a transition shave. It's supposed to say ... , anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new entries recently to keep folks entertained and informed). While I was busily reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Components If your Evaluation A or B is missing, click the link to check ... recommendation through this system, or fax a copy of their letter to us at 1 ... Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on ... about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of ... creative works. To me, RUNE is at once a bigger mission to support the arts ... funding. We need submissions to compile a quality magazine, and funding to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011