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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  5 pm, in the Simmons MPR. I will be there, along with food, and all ... simplified overview-- being aimed at the K-12 level-- so I wanted to include ... endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  down to it, the most important thing will be personal experiences. If ... that all my future female companions will end up in all the different ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors

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

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Nebraska, due to arrive in some hours, will be similar to the one described ... .” Of course, the circumstances will be very different; I am, after all ... incredibly smooth; it’s going to be hard for the second leg to live up to this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  into it. Did you see that coming? Well, too bad. That will only make the ... dig the pictures) And something shiny tonight that will likely end up ... presentations, President Svsan brought out the new charter for MIT, to be signed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  your Kerberos) will be your login to the computing systems here, it'll be ... professional. Your username will appear all over the place: emails, URLs ... Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... my life will be a little easier. EER- Emergency Exit Row FR- Front ... WILL recline their seat as far as it can go, the person to your left will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... stored the file away figuring it would be useful for something one day ... . Theoretically, this could be used to generalize the types of people who live there

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  admitted to Existentialists University. The frown on your face may be related ... , don't be surprised if the 2nd question is "How am I supposed to get to the Prom" (Of course the first question is are you alright? It may be

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... of the 17 dorms. As there would definitely be a lot more questions ... ... (I stuffed the DVDs into a lot of those booklets on Thursday!) BE

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  this should be company policy, since I had already handled the food and ... This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to-Northern Maine with some people from my dorm. The Edwards Dam apparently didn't do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  at MIT are rarely just fact recall. Sure there will be the occasional ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit ... that the physical act of copying notes over again will better ingrain the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  , decisions will be posted. For regular action applicants, the deadline is ... time my 18.02 final will be over, and I'll be freeeee. And for the first ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Supposedly, the hockey schedule will be ready tonight. Our first game could be ... ... The sign-up sheets for the teams would be in the lobby of the dorm, and ... . And whenever we had an IM game, it would be announced to the entire dorm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  ask what was wrong, and usually the answer would be that there was ... need to be open to the, too. A lot of times, they aren't." Behind him ... York at Stony Brook on Long Island, NY. I chose this to be the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have ... able to pick up my assignment until tomorrow. This whole week will be ... , Friday from 8:30-10:00 PM is the Meet the Bloggers Party! Be there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  , mystical tones. That might be me romanticizing it. In retrospect, the ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  kickstarter will be successful or not. But to some degree that's beside the point (though I hope it will be, and am backing it, because I would like a ... them would be great and cool. But the project he's currently working on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  that the kids will pick up on social cues and be more likely to say that ... leaders at the Museum of Science where we will be testing, and in the next week or so, I will start collecting data. So far, to be honest, the job

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to ... -time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been ... stressed-out over the SATs, ACTs, SAT IIs and EIEIO (a test only given by

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  means... The next post will be #2000. Woot! Any bets on which blogger ... 'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007