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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  . The Tech, for instance, has an impressive circulation, well ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions column from an MIT student deeply affected by the sight of food riots in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  ). Oh, and studying. I finished and turned in one final paper for Human ... Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... .2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed: In

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity and used her as a test subject for many experiments. In the future ... nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out ... to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  ?), well-intentioned development workers saw a need for water in an area with ... 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... you than getting stranded in an expensive Mediterranean resort town. So ... , but because this is an MIT blog and there is a magic square in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students ... participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... , but I don't want to ruin it for all you future prefrosh out there who

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... you a secret because I have that much love for you all - I was really not looking forward to this semester because I was really bummed about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... when I look at your names in these threads, I don't see scores or grades ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  're welcome to enter our Early Action or Regular Action cycle. We'll send an email in early December outlining the options available: You may use ... withdraw your MIT application. MIT practices need-blind admissions for all
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  your way in four days and an orgo test coming my way in a week, it'd be ... I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking ... failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  an art exhibit at MIT (in the New York Times!). And for now, off to ... few odds & ends... CPW update: for everyone who has registered, we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... . As for me, in exchange for free admission and some good opportunities ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  course, she's practically an expert already, having worked in six ... comment for Melis in the comments here) ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  because he was in the middle of finishing something for said UROP 25) An ... for Thanksgiving Break. The one visible in this picture shows the three of us in space! 2) Tickets for the Vessel, Come from Away, and the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's in Langer Lab, of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... novel targets in liver cancer cells for the siRNA to attack.  The UROP ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  looking back, I'm grateful for a lot of the classes that I took, or was ... in fields that I wasn't actually majoring in, just for the heck of ... I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  ). For an inspiring and entertaining read, I highly recommend the in ... In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  will give you cookies without razor blades in them for trivial reasons ... There is a whiteboard in Ben's office which was apparently once used for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007