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• 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  , we then picked up our tickets for our flight as everyone arrived in ... ,000-lane highways in real life, folding every which way over each other for ... in the evening to finish up an assignment for a class I had that day

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  compete for some serious national recognition and prizes. In our first year ... universities worldwide in these areas. Q: What advice do you have for applicants ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can ... of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  issue of class size versus # of applicants - but in the end you have to ... The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  established myself somewhat now. In my UROP, which I’ve had for 5 semesters now ... here in Massachusetts for the summer as a concept engineering intern at ... for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  've been trying for years!' 'Well, you didn't have an MIT freshman in your ... , was responsible for the issue. I was glad that the prank wasn't mean ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009