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  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  experiment co-founded by Kip for gravitational wave detection. The set-up ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... the lottery for free dinners with distinguished members of the physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  election year. It's business as usual for most seasoned Americans but, for me ... voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... Prize” for engineers) and author of over 900 papers, Professor ... until the end to see his really great advice for prefrosh! Melis: Can you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  'm a little too ADD for straight up productivity. I have a hundred ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  student(s) is (are) responsible for the conduct of her/his guests including ... responsible for their own conduct as well as the conduct of their guests ... applied for improvement for my 12th this year).i am an NTSE scholar.since i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort ... for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... classes you take can be applied toward the degree requirements for both

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... ." Unfortunately, since we were too lazy to wait another 35 seconds for the light to ... . Just plain "WATE" is the signal for some unholy combination of the three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... physics capstone, which pairs you with one lab partner for the entire class ... always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... quirks before. For example, many know that MIT’s buildings aren’t named ... circle for only a moment before diverging). 9/10 [caption id

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  , you can still sign up for virtual information sessions and tours here ... For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... -1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... forgetting that they have died. For every 30 minutes that I forget, there are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  I linked up here. So I was wondering about the opportunities for ... ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry ... I have a "me-them" mentality... If MIT was a nice match for me, wouldn

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  ended up as a combination refresher course for some topics and really ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be ... have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!

  

  at the time) got a feature! So, it's only fitting that for our third ... 'm going to do for the fourth year..."][/annotation] Every time we give ... up in the middle of our old double, leaving us with another double

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 16, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  ’s the email I pored over for so long. [caption id="attachment_107005 ... other friends, and I descended to begin the odyssey. We started brewing up ... . After basically doing squats nonstop for so long, I declined hopping it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  students. A journalist for National Geographic, sailing along the coast of ... – classes and internships and soccer games – where everything has been tied up ... sniveled for what felt like 30 minutes, because “I don’t know anyone here! I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... 've thought, drinking 3-4 cups of straight-up black coffee a day was ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... -M (a communications intensive class for my major in major), and for ... -- diligently professing my case for why I am taking these classes, I'm left

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don ... have thicker skin than me, but a lot of growing up has been about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are ... -guessing their decision to go far away from home for college.   tolerate it I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020