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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  intellectually capable of doing the work. And MIT does a lot to help people who are ... anyone who can make it to come), but don't worry too much, a lot of people ... the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  . Since then, we've improved so much. We needed that year to reset - we ... wanted to become a programmer, but we had too many of those already, so to ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  -taught dancers I've met throughout my life, seems to be a pretty common experience ... because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too ... . obviously, I don't have the time to watch them all, so I've developed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  't need to tell you that MIT is very different from all other schools. A ... us? Not much, I'm off to bed. But Marilee has a new post for you ... individual level as much as possible. Marilee feels that delivering a decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... during the weekend, there is a huge support system here at MIT to help you ... .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  so I tried not to bother him too much, but when I inevitably needed ... ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... movements. Jebby helped with a group designing a smart walker with crash

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  's in the student center, it's not much of a problem to run out to Star ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... actually better for the environmeny. Why, you ask? Well, you need oxygen to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put ... to a single white blood cell, lovingly known as Theodore. (Actual text ... mean, not to blame him or anything, he’s been doing a great job

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  else does. Not every moment in life needs to be intellectualized, and I ... adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply ... available to me? Does work study mean that I'll get a hair-net & spoon for ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  demonstrated with every blog entry why he was destined to become a successful doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in Indiana :) I want to get into a heartfelt section here about failure, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  much time the story would take to complete."]we point a previously ... actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... explain any software term that might need a definition in an annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart ... that heart muscle cells needs to make functional, beating fibers. An ... Khademhosseini knew from an early age that he wanted to be a bioengineer. In fact

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap ... out of their own pocket. So, a shoutout to them, and all the wonderful

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  they need to go to their waitlist or not, and if so, how many students they need to admit. At this point, colleges will begin admitting students ... first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Mary Lou Hazal, A&M-Commerce News Jun 29, 2009 ACCEPTED TO MIT - Cory ... the scholarships* needed to attend this elite Northeastern university ... determination and a good sense of humor," he said. "I was very happy to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn't even think about how much TechCash I had on my MIT Card, but it's a good ... is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  , or "what needs to be improved," simply because things are much more ... application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your ... deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010