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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  .     "... a high school where no one has attended MIT in many ... I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark ... stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get the score report in two months.) In other news, I got this email from ... can't wait until then, I suggest going to http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive. At first, I thought it was just a random piece of trash.... but upon

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  where I plan to be (and I really hope I don’t have any of the times drawn ... sustainable living from iHouse, because in our neck of the woods having fun ... The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  feast we've ever imagined could be waiting inside? I can believe that. We ... gathered from near and far in the courtyard of East Campus, where Tetazoans ... by Molly D. '15)   Fun was had by all. I really like living in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no ... least if MIT doesn't work out, I can make it as a backup singer.) Anyway

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP! I also got started [annotation note="We're allowed to do this in EC ... in love with movement than usual. I ran up stairs for fun, just because

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  me, that I can hold my own. I'm beginning to really take pride in my work and in what I'm capable of. And maybe one of these days I can ... snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... departures, I realize that I can make an earlier flight, so I do the "My plane

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  , but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... comment: where's the debate? Latkes are clearly superior!] and another Nobel lecture, this time by Wolfgang Ketterle (though I had him for freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  at least three bathrooms. Hey there. I'm in Leverkusen, Germany ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German ... DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006