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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... a space on East Campus' strip of paper spanning the entire length of ... you were wondering, the words inscribed on the face of Greg's shirt

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... take an airplane the rest of the way. Hour 0: I am not on a train. I ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  living groups - they've been mentioned on the blogs before, but as none of ... part of MIT means we get our own SafeRide stop. If you're on campus past ... , lived on campus one summer, and spent a lot of time in various dorms

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  enjoy the last moments of sunshine. My head resting on my backpack and my ... ’t really taken stock of. IV. A list of relics I see on a long drive: -  a ... class on Tennis during IAP. I imagined the kinds of people I’d meet, at my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  Education) and Wes Harris (Department Head of Aero/Astro) - lit the crowd on ... change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of the regulars have insisted on calling me Nance Nance Revolution (NNR

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... I keep telling myself that this weekend, I’ll be on top of my work ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... start of the project), while always being on top of his experiments and ... tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  feeling of excitement and accomplishment that propels you on to the next day ... everybody likes happy, right? This weekend is parents weekend, so instead of just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... employer would take on by spending a lot of time and money to training you ... , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to ... pleased to discover the diversity of the student body on many different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  .006 Introduction to Algorithms This class focuses on “mathematical modeling of ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer ... more ways than simply discussing the readings of Gandhi on campus. My

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  dude!". Now thats out of the way let me move on. Great job with the floor ... dance floor kits and components (you can see most of these on the webpage ... members and started working on side projects. One of which is the Conway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for the class of 2012, there has always been one elusive item that confused me: #5: Understand the true meaning of IHTFP. The five letters of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  proposal: i want to work on projects that reach a lot of people rebuttal: i ... work on projects that reach a lot of people which i find interesting ... want to work on projects that a lot of people interact directly with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  enough to withstand mass quantities of food. Back on the bus after a group ... , confused, and nobody else seems to know what's going on. All of a sudden our ... pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  past summer on the Big Island of Hawaii and is continuing it from his lab ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on ... prompted by a comment i made on alan's post. 6.031: Elements of Software ... working on the psets, to the point that they were sometimes the highlight of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021