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  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  that last minute work on your halloween costume, or...... I can tell you ... apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that would be less terrifying coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  psets can actually teach you stuff that you'll need to know in the real ... Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego, I discovered Rebecca Black (and am forever scarred) and I received a ... few things. But I'll have to save those for another post because we have

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... pillow + cover out in Walounge before leaving for winter break, but I had

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  after graduation)—and yes, I've witnessed these responses in the wild ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  'm there often enough that I keep spare Cardinal gym passes in my wallet (as ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  éel at CNRS Salut! I'm spending my summer in Grenoble, France, at the Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in ... , Annecy, and Brugge (an idyllic town in northwestern Belgium). I spent last

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  Boston. See, I'm from Salem OR, where the most exciting thing that ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was never anything like that near where I lived. Suddenly, thrust into Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... better food. In 2000 I left JPL to try out consulting, teaching and ... I "really believed" in evolution. I had been complaining about this

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  It’s been three months since Ring Delivery, where sophomores receive ... event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words ... me for work every morning, or even some spare change so i can look

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  friends. Being lazy can be oddly draining in an unexpected way so I always ... know, though I am majoring in biological engineering, I am also a pre ... get in contact with alumni, among other things. You can sort through

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an ... practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... doing magic in that Papa Smurf Lab(I think that's what it's callled? Idk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  lacked the common sense to know bottles go in the trash can. i take back my ... I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... the role writing plays in my own life: Yes, that you travel inside of. I ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can enter ... missing documents, get them in ASAP so that you can get a financial aid ... us as much specific information as you can; this will help us make your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011