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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... , though. Few high school students have access to courses in upper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  in the how-to-program sequence (after 6.0001, which starts at the very ... were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  first lesson in the lab was learning how to use a pipette, and literally ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  in order to get a chance at kissing him? What??? I'm mad, y'all. Also ... . In my essay, I describe how I came to embrace Japanese culture after a ... . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... it will converge to midnight in approximately June 2012.....hey! That ... time to do it I'm pretty hosed (I leave exactly how hosed as an exercise

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in ... and pepper to taste 1. Wash the rice once with cold water, and place in ... My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  turns entertaining my little brother, and somehow, I managed to get him to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... ’t even remember how they’re related to us anymore. I’m just going to refer

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can ... of pre-made templates for you to copy and use as your own! In this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions ... 't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... waves traveled through the wires to create mechanical waves in the speaker

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You ... structure of America's higher education systems Great! Glad to get that over

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the ... know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... your friends, on your professors, on the random people you sit next to in ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... movements to get a tiny Cessna to move. These controls… were amazingly ... be going about 145 knots to land in this plane". Lower the landing gear

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more ... posting. i just needed to get these thoughts in writing. maybe i'll actually ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021