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• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the ... have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue ... . And you should know that. It also resulted in me getting this delightful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  simply for the pleasure of it. A: I... do not partake in the pleasures of ... out both the departmental and ongoing requirements for majoring in math ... happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  scores from ACT will reach us in a few weeks, in plenty of time for EA ... ACT hasn’t resolved this issue in a few weeks, we will put out a ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  aware of national and global issues, Ramanan voiced her concern for ... baby seals for fur. "I really started becoming active in middle school ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  in their backgrounds and had an intense curiosity for my own background ... influenced my understanding of it.  In my eyes, we were just tools of service ... of it.  In my eyes, we were just tools of service. We were your maids

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... issue for these laptops. Dale had brought a solar panel from the United ... Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  lot of skills that I’m sure will come in handy for next year ... around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food ... building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our ... these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even ... teens hadn”t seen me for four days in a row and I knew that they would

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... Station in time for a cheese croissant from Au Bon Pain and a cup of ... , Germs, and Steel is all wet, now. So, I'm back in Harrisburg for the week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  everything. So I applied for my double major late, and I find out in two ... I like writing. I like writing about issues at school, like mental health, and I like writing poetry about my own issues and passions. I like

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  gentlemen, that means that one poor soul in the Green Building, tooling on in ... 's in Langer Lab, of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... novel targets in liver cancer cells for the siRNA to attack.  The UROP

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation ... as Paul worked at for UROPs), won the National Medal of Science in 1997 ... from the audience for the remaining 20. Both professors, in their

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... everything about aerospace. However, as a bright-eyed freshman in an ... that could be found in almost every corner of the institution. Although

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  develop a plan for a stair-climbing wheelchair. Blanco submitted a design in ... when the chair is tilted for climbing. The spokes in essence behave as ... Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  for students taking courses in D-Lab to travel over IAP or sometime ... Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  "Tool" are seen floating in the waters. To "tool" a pset is to work on it ... booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw one person shaking his fist proclaiming "F*ck yeah" repeatedly. For our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I ... or so, the grades and comments for that fourth paper rolled in. My ... thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  rowing. I decided to come down to DC for the conference back in October or ... with a session for new attendees in the afternoon; I’m excited to learn ... I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  As you've no doubt heard on email or from Ben's blog, we will, in ... , there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do ... a standard business-sized envelope. In other admissions-related news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  conference in Thailand focused on a range of global health issues, including ... school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006