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• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  because I like having a bit more flexibility, but when we do make things in ... about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... to sit down again and have a discussion. We also have to have semi

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  making a new discovery to be very "adrenaline-inducing." Though the day-to ... obesity. To find the receptor, Mike and his colleagues are using a technique ... mouse tissue, make DNA from it (called cDNA), and then deliver the DNA to

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

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  work to make it happen. These 4 days gave me a space away from being my ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... to lose sight of your biggest dreams and your potential in making them

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ... name a living scientist. I wanted to help counter that a little bit by ... some computer systems next to her and a little mini rocket.  

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... decided to pursue a position at a fashion startup that boasted a fresh ... fireplace to work on my clipboard. It almost feels a little bit like MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to chronicle this week's adventures and realized that I was about to write a blog ... , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  best. A difficult claim for me to make, I know, especially considering ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new ... important to the health of the club that we had a change in leadership. The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . It's virtually impossible to summarize yourself in a few paragraphs ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... minor, it's a really big character development for me. To start off, I ... watched a series of videos (x, x, x) to help me get more acquainted with i3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to ... small mice trying to escape a lab and defeat little mutant chicken enemies

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  normal fashion only to be thrown radically off course a quarter way through ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to make some big changes in 2020: find a new job/switch careers, move

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady ... . Make a difference. Class of 2016, you're in for the journey of a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  Tabacco sought to teach organic chemistry in a rapid, compendious, yet still ... to the right, we got more than a little excited and decided that Dr ... fluorine was a good nucleophile or if it was possible to do an SN2 reaction

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... admission to MIT this year. This is a 4% increase from last year. Since most ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  recommend you do this now to make sure everything works for you. Strange ... I've stopped watching Tom Brady catch a double-reverse pass long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... going to be as completely unique as you, so make the most of it. I mean

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising ... !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting ... rattled my noisemaker so hard it broke and ran outside with my cousins to...make

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007