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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... do research next to grad students. (One of the classes I'm taking this ... percentage of courses require students to read papers from the primary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  internship, so I’m starting to figure out what types of companies, working ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... ="68320" /] Cooking  Cooking was a reminder of the monotony of my life, so I tried to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... are memey, some will make me cry as soon as i listen to them, but all of ... Niki — this was one of the few dances i was able to learn during the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... go through the Athena maintainers. So...in addition to all of those

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... of math they are trying to understand. This approach to understanding ... comes to the rules of society (or subsets thereof), I am often (at best) a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... rode through the mostly unpaved roads of Port-Au-Prince to see signs of ... the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  tomorrow: looking ahead to the semester of TWO classes!!! ... So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist ... introduced me to Chris '09, who apparently had been "really looking forward" to ... experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it's just a nice place to sit and think. So here's my list of Things I ... important. 23. It's wonderful to be perfectly content in the company of just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  ISS transits to the second, there's actually quite a bit of uncertainty ... amateur astronomer in Colorado, appears to have one of the most accurate ... -11-11 04:21:09 PM EST. Just head up to the third floor of Building 8. And

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  deep intrinsic call to follow their dreams regardless of whether or not ... important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your ... . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my ... element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... incredibly good) Short Story, the context of which has absolutely nothing to do

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  story seemed to fall a little flat. And for those of you who were upset by the changes from the book to movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide, you ... was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real-life appear to be well, not that different. The last question of an Orgo exam ... materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  care of them and I cannot bear to see a petal fall. But at the same time ... to do. I doze off in class dreaming of endless T rides. Of sitting on ... instead something to be afraid of. Not something to revere, but fear. So

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the ... we hit the town, where I got to see a lot of my old pals from the ... of our office. To sum it up, admissions should be a process, not a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... learn, good example of what not to do), 温故知新 onkochishin (developing new

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of ... just two hours earlier above): The theme of the Hunt appears to be -- at ... , the last 11 hours of Mystery Hunt flew by. I'm about to go to bed so I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007