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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity of research opportunities on campus, he was able to cross paths with Dr ... Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a ... wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  trips to fun places. While this sounds like a lot of fun and something ... happened to be on a business trip to London so he decided to stop by. Anyway ... and I got to talk to some people who I haven't seen for more than a

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

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... " actions to take from a health standpoint can still be extremely difficult ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  've covered. Meyer explained to me that that was a very inefficient use of my ... itself is taught in a flipped classroom style to maximize working on such ... Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... -way stone vault, each block supporting the other to create a central covered ... all five walls are needed to achieve a stable form is symbolic of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  complain every time I have to walk to lab.) The dining hall serves a ... through a phase of eating ancient grains -- or I tried to, but they take ... the bureaucracy for refusing to let me take one over a minor

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to ... , because apparently everyone has to be a founder in this party. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... ’s last home game of the year and, consequently, Senior Day, a day to ... team, I’m happy to say that I’ve found the same thing here: a second

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack ... Conner 2? Wow, and there you were thinking that it was a prerequisite to be ... other activities, I was a devoted slave to my high school's Drama Club

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  homework, I obliged with a final exam. One of the most surprising things to ... train ride to Sondrio, a small valley town in the Alps, about 30km from ... , and a few even expressed interest in MIT. In addition to my pitch on MIT

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a ... earth-shattering. I started to imagine the worst-case scenarios. I’m a ... such a close scale before, so none of me knew how to react. My head was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives ... at my mom,  sitting across from me in a coffee shop that caters to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like ... managed to successfully innovate a way to blow glass while wearing a mask

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  have been to a few of Boston’s popular tourist sites. It’s been so ... tunnels of building 66 had a big influence on my decision to come to MIT. I ... to a gospel choir concert to support my big from BWA sometime freshman

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  help with a pset problem, when they had to explain it four different ways ... ’t come to MIT on an equal playing field. My friends came in with a massive ... does beg a second question: If fully catching up to my friends is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  information." I'll try to do a longer entry about this earlier, but I encourage ... is to come!). And, if you can swing it, consider taking a gap year ... account.Is it a problem to worry about? Should I ask my Math lecturer to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... enough. I cannot look at a black kid and think to myself, you are going to ... with their A+, grinning from ear to ear. My heart flies when I see young

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020