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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  that everyone would want to do, I was told at the event that many clubs ... can be part of an MIT community even after I graduate, regardless of how ... comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... spent in lab at my UROP. I work at the Computational Fabrication Group in ... technologies. As a mechanical engineer in a computer science lab, I'm relied on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that ... Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  in our names and sizes. I realized right away what they had done. They ... course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... , I did the same, pointing out the complete lack of transparency in the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... committee this year even more than I have in past years. Maybe that's just ... . Simon: When you do math in public, how do people generally react? Is this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... feeling sad? Was there any effort in the decor/design? With that, I present ... Cormick-goers want to challenge this, I would allow the discourse."]McCormick (D

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as ... sucks when instead I could've be basking in sun taking naps on the quad in ... , with the tools I need to take on anything. Would I have felt the same

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... program which teaches sophomores about leadership and work-place dynamics, I ... say "My name is Joe, and I have three dogs," while that line might be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  saw how girls in my sorority would leave for a weekend and return as ... history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and ... it.  I learned that MIT was a jock school by living in it. I saw my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  in the stereotypical self-introduction. Hi! I'm Evan. I'm in the Class ... stereotypical MIT Course Sixer. I live in Burton-Conner, along with way too many ... anything on the walls that would come off easily, took a day off of work (I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  ; I would probably be crying in a hole right now if you weren’t here ... I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap-as-anything-in ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  's not even talk about how quickly I put a [annotation note="6.009 homies ... and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  list now that I've given you the proof of how completely hosed I am ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• 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 / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... : during my last therapy session, i asked my therapist about how i can go ... 's been so hard to drag myself out of bed. and even when i spend time in bed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019