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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  's a great synthesis of the overall strategy of learning-by-doing with ... group with a thesis titled "Amino: a domestic system for synthetic biology ... the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another

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

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  got to see applicants admitted and then watch them become a part of our ... walking up the steps to Lobby 7 every morning. That was a habit that started for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  little shindig; I'm talking about a different 150th! That's right; this ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on-campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  case, reviews (as you will see...), etc. Apparently, there is a ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it’s a motivation issue here. There’s just actually more work (especially

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... were not permitted at the dinner, but just imagine an endless feast in a ... previous years, several folks from the MSA met at a pre-determined location

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  dance instructor come and teach everyone how to do a little swing. I ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... same thing. Fortunately for all of us, MIT has a remarkably strong

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  doing with my life. Over a hundred student groups were present at the ... This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true ... morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  more entries that provided a snapshot of what I was actually doing, but ... you think. "I like what you're doing, keep it up" is a valid answer, as ... realize that he wrote it a month ago. I've been kind of lame about reading

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... grounded and relevant. On those days when I wonder why I do this for a living ... Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Don't sue me, Fox News. Has Al Franken taught you nothing? Do ... 's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... heading over there as soon as I finish this post. A parent sent me a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really ... . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... .... Our journey began, as most good journeys do, at the Student Center

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power a cell phone. A cell phone of the future. We're not actually using

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... ” – a $500k quantum optics toolkit from Germany with nanometer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out, grabbed the student guide, and tossed her into the trunk. A fifth young man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006