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• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch ... left to right: Nick, Peak, Jijun, Johann, Mike, Donald, Amber, Kenny (MIT ... their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  libraries in New England. Needless to say, this makes me really happy. ^_^ I ... being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  order to make a movie that was less than 6 hours long, but I thought they ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize ... 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

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael ... rings to show to the world on our beautiful 2016 hands! LOOK AT MY PRETTY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map: After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those applications - and since we have so many to read, we often find it more efficient to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet ... to work" says Sam '07 Club Passim -- live music Grendel's Den -- the ... coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  , followed by ice cream at the famous Mike's Pastries. We tried to walk off the ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of

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

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to ... its eco-friendliness. In addition to photovoltaic panels, the building

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  advance. (Be sure to stop by and see if there are any open spots if you ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... ] From: Dan Kirsch To: [Burton Conner Discussion] Subject: Massages tonight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... tonight for one question (more soon!) before heading off to my friend Satwik

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... with their friends. Goodman does the near impossible. He makes physics ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  MIT evening is like, and I will not be able to tell. By “evening” I ... The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... " by Sting (embedded below). Pretend the two photographs underneath are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Auditorium), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight ... ; Cognitive Sciences faculty at MIT. Here's an official biography, followed by an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022