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

  

  makers in our admissions process, and has a general love of hands-on ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  blogger now, but he's worried a couple of times that focusing on math is ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... ring circus, except instead of elephants,it's nerds; acrobats, calculus; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the ... . With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult ... difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par ... hand in anything with words in, on and/or around it that leaves the ... the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I now live with on our campus. According to the job description, RAs serve ... although there were women living in one of several independent living groups

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... have a better understanding of how entrepreneurs may get started with

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... other bits and pieces of buildings strewn throughout Boston and Cambridge ... precisely a year ago, when I was but a newly arrived freshman on MIT's campus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  . Taking junk off of my bed at night and throwing it on the floor is nothing ... website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove ... inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh ... , when students go to tons of fun events at dorms to explore different

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on ... men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street.   I make

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  look best, regardless of what option you formally chose on the ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... on the computer printout of the part 1" Yes, we are happy to accept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English ... /interests without a constant stream of deadlines helped me develop as a student and ... Vishal Sood when I was in Ahmedabad for Garba. There are of course many

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  on that, slowly! But it'll definitely take a lot of time. Thank you ... of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be ... , but as of recent it feels more like a chore. Every week that passes by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  . One of the projects is to make AR animations on MIT landmarks! (this new ... The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  . Step 11: Go on with your day And so we did. The beginning of the ... narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... course road “filled” up (quotation marks because neither of us have future

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  http://my.mit.edu. To announce this, Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill has just sent out this email: The MIT Midyear Report is now available on ... Report now. The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is required of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010