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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  understand how these little lizards can defy gravity. It turns out that gecko ... reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  'm on to you, Melinda. In fact, I've kept the 2002 Time cover asking, "CAN ... Magazine In Style--featuring tips on buying your own helicopter and $5000 ... I discovered shortly after completing this blog entry that, much like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and ... appearance of concern, how can you explain the compassion that I saw that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... poses a professional threat. I’m privileged in that I never expected to ... planned, by June, I will hold bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... -pop because lord knows how many dances I learned between 4th and 7th grade ... throughout my life, so they're pretty great how do I find dances? this is a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  (yet clean) quotes: "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can ... them engage in a ceremony that, uh, can't be printed here. Ruth was not ... hurried over to buy our tickets "There's no crime in giving yourself over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  housing. nehalita asked, "how's the tennis in MIT? =)" You can learn more ... .. but it all depends on how i perform next weekend." Good luck with the ... wrote, "I can't come to CPW cause of an orch competition so I was just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... 's overall rank in class, which can be problematic. Experienced admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  feel like you have succeeded. So how should I be defining success in my ... 've hit success. So how can I possibly know that I'm making decisions for the right reasons? How do I know I'm not "sheeping" along in life

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  opprotunities? A generic answer is "Judging them in their 'contexts'", but how do ... can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  Patriot’s Day on Monday (can anyone say “Boston Marathon” ... and Sam ran it together in 2006). We also got Tuesday off because MIT is ... so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Earlier this year, I blogged about how we are redesigning ... blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... thought about this, I kept on thinking about how student projects like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all ... mostly-freshman GIR (General Institute Requirement) I can no longer ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... 're interested in. You can start a UROP as a freshman, first semester, by just ... to know about you, not about how much crap you can shove into your day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for ... INSIDE" in Helvetica Bold Condensed. At first, I thought that the "FIRE ... Arial; we can tell even if it's blurry. Its header, "Facilities", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  can we make sure that supplementary materials were received? I sent in ... interested in blogging as well for the admissions office, where can I get more ... each, how can I include all three scores? BTW College board has sent MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006