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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  -finals bonfire. Our notes for the semester were the guests of honor. I remember staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember ... fessed up. I discovered that gouda is delicious. I remember my first time

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  "Oh yea you guys don't have armadillos up there in yankeeland ... here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  details about this semester's line-up to come; I would write a more detailed ... . Please feel free to post any questions about this! You can also look up ... officially registered for 8.01, but took special seminars and the 8.012 final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  for translation, and ribosomes, which line up the messenger RNA and the ... blender equally among the group and line the cups up on the table for the ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  .013 (Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, for those not yet versed ... the water level, but other than that, it is really up to our ... different direction that most and try and come up with an innovative material

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so ... wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and not for credit. I've been running between kickboxing classes, business

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first ... . Don't worry about flaps, there aren't any in this plane. Keep for the ... (you just pulled up and continued to fly), but I did get to see targets

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should ... , has been excited about the coming of the elephants for over a month. So ... packed up her laptop and told us to move from our room in building 2

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  found out, I literally screamed while jumping up and down for a good ... most creative stories I've heard. Just gotta share this. :) "MIT, for ... <3' was one of the first things I came up with. Afterwards, whenever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning ... . Along with my major in Chemical-Biological Engineering (Course XB, for those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the ... cuprates". For those of you with complexions darker than mayonnaise, that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• 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,…

  

  The debate over nature versus nurture has raged on for decades, but ... Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue ... ;bottom-up” approach. Rather than creating a 3-D gel scaffold and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  into a desktop for her computer: Some of last year's entries: 1 2 3 4 5 ... biography is true] Peggy ("Pigasus") Peggy grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ... Counselor for MIT in his spare time. Ian and Peggy have been best friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... interested in catching up on some TV. This month, you can see (at least) three ... and pair them with eight beautiful women in a competition for $250

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided ... . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to ... cocky this year, thinking that my read rate was going to go way up immediately. I was wrong (although I am better than last year, for sure). I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the AppleBake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  Market for some necessities (i.e. Frosted Flakes). (Although it was kind of ... .) After this, I had to leave for field hockey practice. I knew I'd be gone most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep ... really is better to get a good night's sleep before a test than to stay up and cram. Really. 3. Shopping is therapy. 4. Naps: they're not just for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a ... starring Hanuman the Monkey God. The characters are united in their love for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005