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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan ... later, and they are all accessible from the highway on the other side of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  the guidance of Daniel Kohane, M.D./Ph.D. He is currently working on the ... integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... in Langer Lab on a bone tissue engineering project in November of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility ... . There was also that time when one of our professors turned us loose on the ... least I got around to it. That's why, this year, on top of the family

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  will validate years of hard work and sacrifice, and set you on a new and ... decisions will make a profound impact on the rest of our lives. My classmates ... and get letters of recommendation. (By the way…I’m writing this on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of ... fraction of non-Windows users. And so on, and so on. What really matters, though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  to put nothing on my gcal. i spent most of it with casey, but also with ... 'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab was graded, i was still passing 0% of the tests. i needed to sleep, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  cilantro and cheddar on top and the cheese melted all over the starchiness of ... 'll tackle numero uno on my conspicuously block-lettered list of priorities ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry ... class focuses on developing the basic skills of a researcher: coming up ... It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4 AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 ... ? Definitely. I think some of my friends might actually be spending more time on clubs/activities than on classes. It helps that there are hundreds of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  music of WMBR. Rock on! P.S. Photos coming soon! ... for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy yet unfamiliar basement of Walker Memorial. It was one of the first

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  ) this fall. It's basically a crash-course series of classes on education ... of the song (the song can be heard on this Youtube video. Step 3 ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  nutritious discussion worthy of repost on the blogs, which inspired in me the idea of reposting the discussion on the blogs (marvelous logic!). Thus, I ... not universally feasible on campus. In four of the twelve dorms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  Biology Angelika Amon to investigate the effects of aneuploidy on ... this point) and get a jump start on some of my coursework for next ... a few of my other friends are also staying on-campus in dorms or some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  comprised of five to eight people, and teams compete based on the average ... Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... moments that reminded me of things that White had talked about, including

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  Just this morning I was reading the New York Times on line and ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  working on a redesign of our viewbook, as well as Admissions Blogs v2.0 and some snazzy new stuff on MyMIT. Wrapping up the Class of 2009 and ... of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  , even if it shows as previously received on Parchment, if it's not showing up on your MyMIT tracking page, there was likely some kind of issue ... our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014