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• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  wore all the time in high school, and a dress with a cut similar to one I ... to events even though I’ll be gone in a handful of months. And for the ... all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  . Went on a volunteer health trip with a medical group (think Doctors ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode ... could chemically analyze blood for components/diseases), and us

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  conference and on a paper in Cell. I'd worked on an independent project for a ... scientist, not a baby, and was able to discuss my project with humor and poise ... undergrad, and your undergrad school will change you, whether for better or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the Admissions Office received a wonderful serenade from the beautiful and talented Muses. Left: The Muses serenade us, as Stu, Edmund, Jenny and Amy look

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  heritage and apparently having a face that looks kind of funny, to the extent ... patience, selflessness, discipline. And it’s okay to retreat for a day or two ... go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and

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

  The reading season begins

  

  great weekend, and for all you early action folks, relax! Go have a picnic ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the first three weeks of IAP, making for a nice 5-week vacation away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  coped with the potential for low grades and low self-esteem by telling ... and eating bags of black tea at my final exams. For about a month after ... ’ve reevaluated what I look for in friends and in myself. It took me an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06 ... experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) 2005 with Laura Stuart (head of the class and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. I automatically said, “Heh… $3.14. Like pi.” The

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  our community. And – as I have – a great many stay in this country for ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of ... institutions rooted in science and engineering, we are proud that, for many of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  --the atmosphere is rich with fodder for music, art, and poetry. You'd think a place ... look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem ... date in the corner. It's a sort of art form in itself, and for some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  section of both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to ... break and only a small handful of people will be answering phones and ... and flexible with late documents from schools than with late documents

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard. It was a wonderful course, with fascinating readings and ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page ... can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  today was sunnier. And a tree's now gone, apparently. Look! Look at ... /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I ... 's bad for my eyes and my back and my body. Coming to MIT gave me an excuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow ... incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both ... Exacto knife and a gluestick manually inserting 52 NFC tags into each card

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  for the first time this year,[/annotation] and, as a person who is very new to puzzles, I am both very scared and very excited. This year's hunt ... solves the metameta, the Mystery Hunt then ends with a final puzzle called

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comodidad y facultad ¿Te asusta postularte en facultades lejos de casa? Entonces, lee esto.

  

  paisajes, los aromas y los rostros familiares a los que estás acostumbrado desde pequeño? Y, principalmente, ¿tus padres lo permitirían? Comencé a ... que sus hijos abandonen el nido para ir a la facultad. Y es una realidad

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • May 1, 2012