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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  to say. It's funny. Less than two months ago, the weather was much ... testament to the amazing environment of growth MIT is. One example comes from ... Programming Competition, and the website that gets the most Facebook likes in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  year's Killian Award and the person scheduled to teach us "What is a gene ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  were three of us: one of us is going to grad school in the fall, and ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  for myself most of the time - I rarely go to the student center or LaVerde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... available, both in high school and college, to learn about things outside the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going ... the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... a very pleasant place to stay. It felt much more relaxed than the ... earlier that day, and that the entire city was decked out in green to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  lack is so important. The most recent leadership initiative in Student ... the initiative to make a change in the community. The MIT Public Services Center offers students the opportunity to volunteer in its numerous

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... teaching. Needless to say, in the classroom, they do their job well. My 18 ... , and attempt to finish all of the problems in (hopefully) one sitting

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... particular airline. I don’t think the problem is the self check-in machine or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... event. Friends, this is the Green Building, home to EAPS ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  is no longer the case) Gedion gets most of his parts from Mercato, the ... attends LG Technical School (as in, LG the Korean mobile phone company) in ... braided my hair)    Gedion is pretty phenomenal. In many ways, he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  attend the most prestigious university I’d been admitted to. I wanted to be ... together in this universe, to be the collective result of every decision made ... a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  studying abroad is how expensive everything seems... In fact, the annual cost ... when I had overheard him chatting to someone in the halls about the ... in the year, schoolwork overloads caused me to pull several all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  this one is the most difficult answer to get. Every student on the ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... this is the answer that all our applicants want to see when the decisions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009