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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... living in for the next two months, for my summer internship at EPFL (the ... , in the Laboratory for Neural Microcircuitry. I'll be helping with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from ... thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the entire lecture in 10-250. So basically, this class is designed to teach us ... , carbohydrates and how they exist in the body. So far, it's been pretty good

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my ... destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not ... doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week ... . While I'm not technically "faculty," many cool faculty members were in ... presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... releases, huh? In other news, I have found my long-lost twin, Dora. You have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  disadvantages, it's worked pretty well in the past week or so. Friday night, Adam ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... who were strong in other areas. I was really just trying to say that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  -degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... information on registration procedures. In all programs, students must
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... schoolers, prefrosh, and people in general. And in case at any point it feels ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret ... anywhoo, in Taiwan there's this moderately popular TV show called Da Xue ... in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable ... ’t participate in it, but it’ll always be there if you want your social life to be ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021