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  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  . The initial discovery of the science behind the gecko’s stickiness ... happened to come across the Nature paper on a friend’s desk. He decided to ... gecko’s foot using a strong, water-resistant, flexible, and biodegradable

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite ... friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... ’s head injury I went to the CSAIL presentation, 6.02 class, and EECS

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a ... table my name and he produced . . . a folder. Yay. Here’s what I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  even how to write the Greek letters that filled the board. Let’s say ... , too. It’s a very collaborative environment with seemingly endless ... University, and if it’s not a good fit, those four years are going to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  short of a pyromaniac’s. https://youtu.be/ytdqcV3HV4o Is it real fire ... it’s hot and will burn you if you screw up. The fire isn’t any less ... spinning is just another sport with it’s own set of precautions people need

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  ) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without ... . ------------------------------------- Mihaela wrote: "How bounding is one's choice about the department ... Engineering in one's application and decide to go to School of Management

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox ... House ideas didn’t pan out, but Hassan’s sophomore summer, he interned at ... primarily Uber’s driverless car initiative. He was supposed to go to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  form super organically! “Wait, what’s synchronized skating?” I ... ’ve never heard of synchronized skating, or “synchro,” it’s a team ... because it’s relatively new, but over the past several years, it’s been

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  Hi! It’s been a while. I first opened this Google Doc on Nov. 27th ... hosted on MIT’s campus – read Janet’s blog in the hyperlink to learn more ... , we like to start off with an icebreaker that’s some variation of slay

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  yearbooks from the 80’s in the school library. I miss wearing crewneck sweatshirts in the parking lot covered in dead leaves. I still have them but it’s ... playing fortnite–I miss fortnite so much. I’m sorry, I know it’s lame, but I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... my undergrad. Talking to master’s students at MIT helped solidify that ... funded study, and master’s programs in the UK are only 1 year, freeing up a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  honey[/caption] Here’s my deferral story. It's pretty angsty. I was an ... right now. It’s funny, around that time my English class was reading ... going insane from guilt. I distinctly remember finding Raskolnikov’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  even the worst story that’s happening. Hundreds of thousands of college ... , it’s hard for me to go back and think about all that happened, to try ... . To relive all the pain that happened. (That’s why the beginning days

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  to THINK! It’s different from most other high school research ... possibly also understand art? And so my project of creating what’s basically ... , living with a host’s dorm community, eating way too much free food, talking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  La La Land did not win (and it’s not a joke!). Afterwards I learned ... met the magnificent beasts Loki and Peru. It’s been a good night ... place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  mother’s shoe closet and beelined for these crimson-colored wonders that I ... are this really fun way to tell a story through choreography. (Here’s a ... heels is fun, It’s hard as hell but the best part about being a dancer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... “international” as a fluid term--I don’t always mean literally students without U.S

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and Neuroscience requirements. And it’s been pretty amazing so far. This week, we are ... shirt is from MIT’s annual production of The Vagina Monologues, which has

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . Cecilia’s Parish in Boston, where I go every Sunday, and proudly belted out ... . Cecilia’s are similar in that they are both Catholic and carry out the same ... things like, “you’re lucky”. That’s definitely true--I had supportive

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... . She says “you guys, it’s weird to think that this is probably the last

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015