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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... -developing a technique called RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi gives scientists the ... from MIT; he is now a professor at Berkeley. If his surname sounds

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  got a third chance to redeem myself. I failed it though lol"]Google SWE[/annotation] ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... recruiting season again, but this year, I escaped from the cycle by accepting a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... am, to have regular access to a 3D printer and a laser cutter and drill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  . Ann Makosinski, a Google Science Fair winner at 15. She's been featured ... After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Apple store on Boylston Street. Although the store's actually less than a mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following ... England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... Developmental Biology, and I’ve been working since then as a postdoctoral fellow ... long-distance marriage thing. But I've had a pretty productive year: I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... Maseeh (rhymes with “classy”). A senior who could tell all about the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , ungracefully truncated by the finite spacial limits of Google Calendar. Lulu is a ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... winter on a 21st century MIT campus, so chances are that whatever she spent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a memorial event organized by Caroline M. '18. Afterwards, I spent a few hours

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  like a middle-age technology reporter. It's like Fight Club, or being a ... sports updates (they also have a twitter). MIT News has a twitter as well ... snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  Google and Yahoo news feeds. If there's an article about you or a friend ... a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... format the post so that he posts, so be it. look, dan, cj has a duty. he ... job. dan: why can't we just take a break from blogging? it's not as if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  President Reif during Commencement, or simply walking down the street as a new adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018