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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... the hell out of my room. Coming up in the next three weeks with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  one of the "prestigious" schools that accepted me. It's as if even the ... my favorite/most-interested-in topic. Half of it was all the cute ... all the MIT majors out of curiosity, when I stumbled upon the strange

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  ’s written in the book, there’s a lot of good parts that are individually well ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... trying everything. As it is, the days are made up of meals, formal and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I ... ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  is Peter Reddien, seriously the boy-wonder of Course 7 (biology). Apparently he was one of the most brilliant course 7 grad students the ... Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  does is write great music, and put real smiles on the faces of millions ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  from home, like the weird practice of tipping, or how there’s functional ... . The leaves changing color? Happens too quickly. Really, so much of the big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... , because everything almost felt too purposeful. Most of the art I made was to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  from run-of-the-mill public schools, people from the middle of nowhere ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think ... 't one of the applicants this year nor do I know any rejected applicants so

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... beginning next week. Any winnings not collected by the end of the week are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  both of his passions. Jugal found his UROP by searching the websites of professors whose research involved the combination of Biology and Nuclear ... -September of this year. BNCT is a potential cancer therapy that targets the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  are at the beginning of Easter term so there’s panic over the last ... ;m sitting at home while writing this. Most of the other people on the ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely ... the Student Center. There are nine different varieties of truffles in ... In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip ... the example of what not to do ie I was wearing board shorts, flip flops

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the ... ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... the identity of your GC, be sure to introduce yourself post haste. In

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... discussing it with the rest of our house, I ended up drafting what the sign would look like using some pictures of the wall and created different 3D

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... at your application again and consider it in the context of the Regular ... deferred you are now officially a member of the RA pool — with no

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... 't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011