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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  letting her know she had been accepted to the university renowned for its ... to 3.14159, better known as pi, the mathematical symbol for the ratio ... to split $5,000. They spent 250 hours on their project. To Christy, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy ... restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma ... to head back into the city and catch her flight. She's off for a ... girls were lying on their backs, refusing to get up - and the guy from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  . For example, the degree to which other teams match up against any given ... , Kyle Arrington to make a terrific pick on one set of downs before failing ... - may be able to help me further refine this model to account for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  engineer to appear on such a high-profile tech publication that I can recall ... cause to believe that perhaps we are celebrating the right things. For the ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the ... current material: We're about to begin working on group projects, and have ... intended for us to practice interpreting data and writing a paper before we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... terrain makes it harder for larger molecules to travel, so they'll move ... map for a plasmid, because it's pretty easy to figure out for circular

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  apocalypse might show up on your doorstep asking for a charitable donation ... ’t going to reject you for forgetting an apostrophe, but why give yourself ... working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... Center and all the public art on campus. I’m looking forward to the next ... my colleagues. Here we are stopping for lunch on the way in Mystic

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... semester). Unless you want to be amazing and take 8.012 or 8.022 (Physics For ... , homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8.01, there are 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  -day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed ... and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe ... : they will not.) iv. depression I submit a drop form for the class to my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at ... : they're not just for kindergarteners! I never used to take short naps ... a plant, I need a certain amount of sunshine to thrive. And on sunny

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... environment and make sure it can talk to the other devices on that network. This ... network, it would send messages to everything on that network and tell them

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of ... —the pressure is always on to glean as much wisdom and learn as many lessons as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... were going on an all-expenses-paid trip to Brazil to learn about their ... get enough sleep (and food) on the two flights it took to get to Manaus

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... that I now have time to dedicate to. This summer, I've been working for ... to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007