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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  UROP! Run back to lab to check on that experiment from earlier. Grab some ... ). Happy because I finally get to eat, and because it's my favorite class. It ... : get out by 8pm, on bad days: stay past midnight. Whenever lab ends

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... cool and probably from 2002 when Simmons was built. I tried to get a ... . I had to look up which way was forward on a [annotation note="i feel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  back here. So instead he came to Plymouth with us on his first visit to ... think dinosaurs are cool too.) After shopping, Adam's mom needed to get ... constellations and nebulae to Chris. On the way back up to Cambridge this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... 't completely easy. I still had to ask for help on questions, but when explained ... .01 felt like it was working to just solidify your knowledge of calculus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  my degree in Management Science). Famous architects like Holl get to ... left. Originally, MIT tried to build the dorm on the right (the zig ... architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  . Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this! ... Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  decency to ring their bells at least 3 meters before nicking off your left ... suddenly know everything that's going to be on the chemistry quiz on Tuesday ... If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  on a train to Boston, then took the subway. I got to campus around midnight. On the way back to my dorm I stopped at my team's (Death From Above ... on our own anyway, but I elected to stay awake for 36 straight hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  ." So how does this document, well over 200 years old, continue to shape ... year. Since then, Prof. Maier's book had gone on to win: "10 Best ... . Maier's book, I knew I had to get it. Having spent a whole semester poring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... Mango. I begged and begged my boyfriend to come get Red Mango with me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight ... hear from your CPW hosts tonight or tomorrow. Even if for some reason you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... on down to the esplanade and take a few minutes to run 3 miles with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  get some downtime to fully reflect on the halfway mark of my undergrad ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  . I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What ... from 8 to 10 and am excited to answer your questions. Stop by and say

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  variables, and also got to see what it's like to watch the sun rise while you're ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  refer to as Poor People Money (PPM), to spend on groceries at locations ... 't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  set and are MAD expensive. I also need to confirm that getting a ... was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to ... ! I love trampolines. I can’t do flips or anything particularly cool on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... myself to someone new, I get the opportunity to meet myself again. I know ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025