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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  working on taking this invention into the clinic, where it can be used to ... successful? Karp attributes it to Langer’s inspirational leadership, his ... experience is not a limiting factor. In particular, he tries to find students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  ” was, anyways, but it was easier to pretend I just misunderstood the ... to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... . At MIT, it’s not enough to be vaguely smart. It turns out you have to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  China, but it slowly starting to hit me that this year is the ‘easy’ year ... successfully making it through what is undoubtedly some of the hardest four years ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  for the pictures)  I strongly suspect the Class of 2020 is trying to ... As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters ... few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack their tubes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  . This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and the polarized dialogue to which it has given rise. I hope to ... 's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  (SLP) speaks to conference attendees Attendees and special guests have lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Rock is not very big, and that is true. It wasn't as small as I had ... just before midnight July 15, who will wait to borrow it from a friend or ... Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more ... order to estimate your eligibility. Keep in mind that eligibility will be ... program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is considered a semester at
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous ... same electron. This is perhaps my favorite fact ever. It's thought ... decided to call it a day when the robotically-sonorous female voice on my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  sail at mit is free to the mit community!) fallen into the charles ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  . It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to ... 's not the real reason I'm posting. (Actually, it is, but I figured you ... in under five minutes! Woo hoo!) This week is different - I'm going to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into ... Rogers Founder”? behind it is where we hold architecture lectures. Now ... long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  - Hot plate. This thing is amazing - it goes from like 25 C to 200 C in a ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... BOLD (2003). Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How To Stop It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  just me), that once the exams are over, it's hard to fully relax ... TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... my own. It turned out that a TON of people wanted to learn how to weld. It got to the point where people would ask Isabella and I if there was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose ... , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Friends™! and wow it was a lot to handle. and for someone like me, who was ... is SO nice and interesting and friendly it had me shook. i’ve run into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019