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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 ... down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese ... maintaining the trails there, so I can imagine that a trip there would be quite

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways...I ... . There are two activities in particular that I love doing, that I could ... , dance has taken me through so many ups and downs in life. I seriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  that you attend. I'm involved in: Campus Tours - If this is your ... ! I would also recommend: Tours of UROPs Tours of Freshman Learning ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in ... , and arrive home in California by noontime. I promptly called up some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted ... significance to me, because that's actually where I became a U.S. citizen :) In other news: (1) I had my first test of the semester this morning in 7

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku ... Sunday I held the Philly central meeting in Fort Washington On Monday ... end. P.S. XPN in Philly and Jack in NY/NJ both ROCK MY SOCKS. I've lived

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  better. In the days and months to come, I would like us to find meaningful ... normal day, we'd be gathered in Killian Court, and I'd be kneeling on the ... . And I know that, in this time of tension around the pandemic and rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  first batch of fritters turned to just mush in hot oil; they would just ... , watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in ... than expected! So, we've been in the kitchen a lot the past two weeks

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how ... the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre-orientation program (FPOP) Discover Biology. We'll be out until midnight, but i'm really

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  without power now will not be able to read this blog post, so I would ask ... forward it on to them and spread the word so that they know. I would also ... hurricane, dumped heavy, wet snow across the region, exceeding two feet in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... volunteering (teaching English I think?) They told us about volunteering in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  up?" how to track deadlines. i've learned that if you ask someone ... 't get done. i've learned how to poke people and ask them how things are ... things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel ... . People are being killed. And in two different ways, I feel powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I would be right. We in the outdoors club even called off our "Winter Circus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... travel experiences really were, and how little of world out there I actually know anything about. Places I've been are highlighted in blue. (Also

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any ... . In perhaps the msot culturally aligned experience I have ever had ever ... Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling ... this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011