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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  "failing" category; the average is almost twice my score, and I am close to ... something you'll have to get used to at MIT. The fact that this wasn't as ... to make sure I had been roughly keeping pace with the class. On the way

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... them. i alluded to the fact that east campus was scheduled to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read ... accomplished, and by all that you aspire to do as your lives progress. For all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... . "Delayed by four minutes every day" is a familiar expression to astronomers. One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... . Sid says that the UROP is great chance to gain lab experience and he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from ... air-insulated Van de Graaff generator (donated to the Museum by MIT ... everyone likes the panoramic photos! This picture was taken by Daniel '10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  enviably shiny. It was one of the few ways in which I felt like I was able to ... just can’t seem to get over the thing with my hair.  My nervous reflex ... along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  with small telescopes. She says that getting a UROP is one of the best ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... participates in the concert choir. Finally, in the future, Emily plans to get a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up ... '12, not to be outdone, responded to the above by building a “short ... -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  . AND everything is so convenient that we walk to the next thing on my ... the Jupiter String Quartet concert. (It's a good way to make money AND ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  country, and your job for that weekend is to faithfully represent it while ... , it's taken them all the way to Seoul, South Korea, where two juniors ... success, the partnership is likely to continue.   That's when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  ... these are good things to provide. Keep us up to date all the way through ... predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  you respond to me, be sure to read the post by Dean Marilee Jones on the ... that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the ... handed out treats to anyone who stopped by their rooms/apartments between 9

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  doctor uses to test your reflexes.  Over the years we've asked ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking ... applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I ... ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in ... IVMIT candygram to support a missionary trip to the Dominican Republic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and ... Bralower '11. We welcome you to join the conversation. So what is special ... be creative. That is not to say that the classes I'm taking don

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... DC have given me a good chance to explore the DMV area! Here's some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is ... four years. But one of the nicest things about MIT is that your friends ... , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  to hear the Language of Music by the Lontano Ensemble in the Kresge ... reception in the MIT Museum celebrating the kick-off to MIT”s 150 Celebration ... Janney, is just one of several whose work is profiled in the “artistic MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011