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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  mouse tissue, make DNA from it (called cDNA), and then deliver the DNA to ... to bind adiponectin." By identifying and isolating those special cells ... making a new discovery to be very "adrenaline-inducing." Though the day-to

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

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  agreement that makes me promise that she'll be the one to pick out my wedding ... , differences in pressure need to physically make sense. Magical. My notes for the ... the Jupiter String Quartet concert. (It's a good way to make money AND

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial middle child and by having red hair, so he compensates by acting out a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up ... waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... known as ECs) to help me out at these meetings. After San Jose, I headed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  publications and websites. During the Admissions season, it is difficult to focus ... of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  to make their voices heard. Not only for the '12 freshmen, but also ... choice to move out. So there you have it: MIT students, making a ... getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  by after my internship to watch the presentations. I missed ... way we make decisions by letting us visualize and explore data in VR ... using "playful technologies". By playful technologies, they mean using new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On ... every time, it makes more and more sense to me. Because the school had a ... manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by ... -filled hours, serving as a miracle antidote to zoom fatigue. It’s helped make ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Sherden, worked hard to make classes deep and engaging. Zinser took weight ... cement his desire to help low-income people by working to develop ... . Career plans: Wants to be a chemical engineer working to make breakthroughs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  since you could often make nerdy references to really niche indie games or ... search. To recap, here's how my internship hunt went: Rejected by ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  improvement, she redesigned a program with graphics such as turtles to make it ... ," he said. "It's essential that we get solutions to making our routing ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  intend to use it on the admissions site. (If we can trust Laura to make the ... In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me ... friend or by fighting hard for broader change or simply by making sure that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  right moment to drop some sodium acetate into his drink to make any tool ... meant to show us what can go wrong so we can fix mistakes before we make ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it ... essay so many times that, by submission time, it did not even make sense ... them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  does lead to a lot of clay that doesn’t make it in. So if I started with ... ] My second goal was to make some bowls! The steps for a bowl versus a ... to make a teeny espresso cup or ring dish :). Do the first few pulls

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025