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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... take his class) and his group on the Human Genome Project, perhaps your class will be doing UROPs with Lander on the Human Cancer Genome Project...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  paired on the same subcommittee today. In other news, while we were in ... engineering programs that have an entirely different focus--generally mainly on ... focused on medicine, has not been established before now. Other universities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your mind, and that you may need to focus on other things, or be temporarily ... : Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, your community, and your
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from ... practicing their choreography on-stage when I responded to my friend: Me ... job. However, when I think of the colleagues I work with on a daily

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... preemptively draft an email requesting an extension on the physics set.  2 ... either. 3:14 — I work on that econ set. I keep confusing the econ

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  , the Student Center housed an MIT treasure: LaVerde's, our beloved on ... blow to the wallet) of an on-campus grocery store. With LaVerde's closure, the bustling grocery store on the first floor of the Stud turned

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can ... [annotation note="can someone draw this for old times sake?"]icy breath on the

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and dear ones. We hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  different things on the speed and agility turf: activation warm up, stretching ... these TVs all around the room so you know what part of the lift you’re on ... old weight room, we were hitting our heads on the ceilings, it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  compellingly on your behalf, whether or not they have taught you the most ... recommendation from people who can write well on your behalf, or to at least have ... constraints on them that might prevent them from writing a typically strong or
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... year later—and post a part 2 later reflecting on how MIT has both changed ... personal schedule for myself and started working on my first task.  Roughly

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of ... without any concrete plans on how to achieve those goals. In the spirit of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt ... working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note ... worked on analyzing a lot of data from Mission 1 to better inform our

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... sleep-deprived stupor. Arcturus had scheduled a lesson on the [annotation ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  phylogenetics. Put that down on my Wikipedia page [annotation note="jk please don ... Wierum)[/caption] As it turns out, relying on measurements was going to be ... mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  to name; that's okay, too. We have posted more information on next

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  [annotation note='including writing one on the blogs last semester!']I adore ... . Fatima: Last week, I also had sestina as the prompt for my poetry class. On ... other person’s first sestina used.    Alan: So, on Sunday, we

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the ... being insufficient to guide me, and set to eke out directions on my own. I ... , I drew a lot of maps on paper, cross-streets and exits labelled. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... , but you procrastinated on what you'd wear to the last minute. Con ... landmarks on campus. You'll look just like the actual thing! Pro: The numbers

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022