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• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog ... am Linh, a junior majoring in Biology (Course 7) and I am currently

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  adjectives that show you how cool this event was! And the BEST part is, I got to dress up for it!! (Me in my new red dress con mi novio; Photo Credits: Joy Ekuta, ‘13) I can’t wait until next year!

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants ... MassArt should she come across a Time-Turner in her dorm. I hate hipsters ... A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2011. We received

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  software - and how these programs can be improved in the future. After the ... ou?", or "How old are you?", but since my French is pretty lacking I ... in the relief effort. What I found most striking was that the current

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There ... puzzling.....how about "Vulcans never bluff!"? I'm almost positive I won ... science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live ... entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started ... ="83279" image4="83280" /] I even drew a giant pigeon mural in my room! 5. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic ... wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  work we would be doing in some of the internships we applied ... MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... undetected concussions has become too prevalent in young athletes, and Ben, as ... distribution. "This is the product that I wish I had growing up. And it’s the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  chain of links and tweets that eventually ended up in my inbox which I ... featured in the blog post "Stephen, I'm Putting You On Notice!"   Jeff ... Resource Development."   Gotta go, I'm in the Student Center and I can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the " ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... UROP. I work in the BioInstrumentation Lab and I’m trying to write up the ... Given that it’s the day before Campus Preview Weekend and I have two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... was first announced. In her first speech to the community, she said "I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... keep firmly in mind as I go through my four years (+grad school, possibly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really. Maybe someday I will. With over 2,500 blog entries, you might think that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008