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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  career, particularly when I had no ambition to be a physics major? "Well ... everything seemed to be going so well...I failed the first test. I had never ... do simple harmonic motion, which turned out to be crucial. Live and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali ... Khademhosseini knew from an early age that he wanted to be a bioengineer. In fact ... expects his UROPs to be committed, genuinely interested in the process of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... bind, I've been known to identify myself "Boston", sometimes, "New Haven

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’t started the assignment by 10pm and had to cancel my quick nap when he ... Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... the project. They even said that if we happened to be in Miami during

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  during the summer. You have to walk a little ways out to the Chipotle by ... equipment we have, so if it breaks it needs to be repairable with Home Depot ... to turn her 2.009 project, a sea turtle egg incubator, to be more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  snow angel will not be permitted[/caption] By this time, it was 1:30 am, and we had work to do. But sometimes, side quests must be sidequested ... –the snowflakes were just melty enough to be conducive to snowman-building hehe

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  important ways: I had to redefine my self worth to be less focused on ... find ways to grow, even though you might be in the same physical space ... be. We recognize your unique place in our collective transition to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The ... waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist, and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  IAP, but this break I really wanted to just chill out. Just wanted to

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... .[/caption] France and Spain have a lot of influence on Andorra, as is to be expected ... where I was teaching who were studying to be corporate secretaries, French

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a ... to be a leader?” he asked, waving his fist in a “you go girl” kind of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first ... "]CAD[/annotation] for thorns because I didn’t know how wide they would need to be to fit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  , or to put it another way, a total wuss. I avoid compromising situations, whether it be going to a party where I don’t know many people, or refusing ... still have a long way to go before I turn pro (I’m so much better than

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  was mailed, for the tracking system to be accurate. If on November 14th ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you ... testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  room is just a way for us to be creative every once in a while," said ... . Each person was photographed in their room after being heavily prepped by ... Home Depot to buy paint. We ended up buying the paint "Royal Academy" by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  's gonna be due back on the 29th!" Sometimes you're asked to make movie ... . Sometimes. Well, there used to be a hammer. And I didn't know about it. And ... -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT ... (sabar drummers), learning to dance the Senegalese way, and eating lots and ... any dance background, as evidenced by this video of us learning to dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  students need to take 8 Humanities Classes total, of which, 2 have to be communications focused, 2 have to be humanities, 2 have to be arts, and 2 have to ... ; Historical Chanteys [carousel image1="101124" image2="101122" /] I hate to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note ... . Just don't write one about yourself because people will be able to tell

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  being able to do physics so quickly that he is a veritable blur. This was ... case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin ... been known to take me some 10-15 hours of being stupid and feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006