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• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  awesome. It is incredibly inspirational to read about you and see just how many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  clean, or at least in navigable condition. To this end, I have a much ... came to the sad realization that I had far too much stuff. There were ... As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  MITx adapts to meet the needs of different classes, anything from the ... collaboration. Since there is no need to debate the answer, learners can spend ... MITx Digital Learning Scientists hope to meet the students’ needs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and ... In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... , I'm almost positive that the Princeton Hospital is supposed to be ... -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  much smaller party that was waiting for us the next morning to do some ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  -high atrium to its bamboo forest to its bold colors to its people. This is Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which, as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him ... . However, this entry is dedicated to Sam, who neglected to mention that HE is ... course). Oh Sam. While I'm talking about Sam, I just have to tell you a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 every Friday, and this week Bryan and I got lucky. Now, I happen to think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself, "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  , and you yearn to be engulfed in it once again. It's something words can ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess ... relationship ends, you tend to look back on your experience and think about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  it, and headed to lab. I try to go to lab once a week. Sometimes I can ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Every time I give a presentation about MIT, I always try to emphasize ... addition to this wonderful community. I really love this place. It's all ... ;-) ______________________________________________________________________________________ From Cattaraugus Reservation To MIT CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION - A

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• 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,…

  

  Khademhosseini has utilized cutting-edge techniques to mimic the microenvironment that heart muscle cells needs to make functional, beating fibers. An ... . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006