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• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... R. ‘15 lives in Simmons. Her major is a unique combination of the ... previously appeared on the blogs to talk about stories in the age of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  Decide to skip molecular bio (7.28) recitation. Tempted by the prospect of ... (MICHAELMAS 2007) 8am - 9am Spring awake and out of bed before the alarm goes ... Complete freedom for the rest of the day! Theoretically, and ideally, this

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer ... , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  a feng shui of Youtube. First: I was on Youtube the other day and on ... a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they ... rendition of the Sad Sad Toaster song from http

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  turbine (nicknamed velociwind) that my team and I built as part of the ... ’s was, the first thing she did was pick a day that we could go to one together so I could culture myself in the world of eateries. We ended up

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of-the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  of drunk, but drunk enough. Belinda started the day with a bottle of vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask ... with a case of the shakes. At 50, Belinda, who wears her black hair tied

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First ... I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... 're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... . Pictured: mad geek cred.Building 46, home of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... does it mean?!When I first got my grub (on Wednesday-ish of that week), I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of ... time we were in the elevator) - but this sense of unseriousness while

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... , not sure tho :( It's not an issue with the size of my tree -- I've only

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  in my first Trimester transcript along with the rest of them with my ... , my date of birth, and the words 'supplemental materials.' " Fabrice ... of the items in MyMIT means that someone has alredy read that part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x ... students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  first at Head of the Charles and I want one more shot at the national ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023