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• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  strains. My role in the project is to figure out how to deliver these si ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... siRNAs to prevent and treat influenza virus infection in mice. If all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the ... , Huanan. My fraternity little brother, David. He decided to not smile in

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity ... demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  . During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... relates to Navy ROTC, or why I am participating in so many activities during

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... . Remember that your application is reviewed in context, and that we look to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... . The primary time to have fun during the year lies in breaks. Whether ... forward to another great one. Tune in next time for a post about IAP, all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  potatoes. What did my mom have to endure to get to her favorite pizza in the ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina ... video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way ... university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  . ... Without laws of nature to anchor them, algorithms used in such subjective ... television to broadcasting." In other words, analogies matter. They form the ... in relation to debates over the ability of the Federal Communications

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT ... universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I ... "   I’ve tried my best in college to speak with as many people who are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I ... sleeping or studying. I do actually need to lock in for my two finals next

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... how to become a kitchen god. [caption id="attachment_74200" align ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... didn't get admitted to MIT. Here’s what you should read this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require ... begin next Wednesday.  The Red Sox are in first place.  And MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old ... peek. To summarize, we wrote a business plan detailing how we would start ... begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  [/annotation] classes you’d need to take to major in 6-2 and get an MEng ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... routine. I invest in acupuncture and massage appointments to help my muscles ... , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025