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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  to perform a critical step in the production process. By inserting a ... , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... 5 chiral centers and takes about 2 weeks to produce at only about a 50

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... him a beautiful birthday cake, decorated in circuits. We all sang ... , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... mug), hanging out in New York City, and more. I’m really only getting ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... there," said Dean Jones in a phone interview, referring to the competition

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  realized that in order to burn cereal Sara must have been a spectacularly bad ... taunting and the teasing came to a head. Sara misspoke one day, and Yuki ... As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  more you need to do. I assure you we will have your scores in plenty of ... action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your ... , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... your careful attention to detail, ladies Crazy tents People love

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... the information age.) What will people be able to major in in 2105?

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  than willing to link to it if you send me an email with a link to your ... Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this ... I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I ... , it's necessary to record your observations, so I whipped out some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  GERMANY!! To entertain you, though, here are a few random finals quotes that ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  Court still has a downward slope in the middle, which was meant to be the ... and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of ... computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research ... the design of a bioreactor. Basically, the goal of the bioreactor is to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  family went to my parents' friend's restaurant in Rhode Island. If you're ... Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied ... College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009