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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... possible now that the human genome is sequenced. The challenge for biology ... shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I ... study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... academics for most minority students; it's about finding an institution that ... complained about the lack of veggies in her diet (chicken fingers every day for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  read this blog by spreading the word that UROP stands for Undergraduate ... down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for ... open his wallet when the barman says: 'For you, no charge!'" Didn't like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will ... am done with all my work for the semester if I can be reading about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end ... for two hours, while they explained everything from their choice of ... .670) for two weeks of IAP. The class meets every day from 9 AM - 4 PM and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select ... 'll for the most part treat them as any other application, but we will ask a ... them. No one knows this more than senior associate dean for students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs ... take off and land. It's what I love to do, and it's what I want to do for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... for the conflict in Israel and Palestine? US troops are fighting in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... week, except for weeks when there's an exam, so there's around ten in all ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  it happens once or twice, or when they have good reasons for doing it ... ; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking ... famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... definitely surpassed Switzerland for me as the most beautiful place on Earth

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  celebrate, get that energy out. You deserve it. =) For waitlisted applicants ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each ... Public Policy." I was like "wow, thanks guys, for announcing to the entire

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... ‘ur mom’ jokes, painting an apt metaphor for the psyche of the average ... everybody in the room except for her"]she set alarms every other minute

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  , technically, is a tropical fruiting plant, even though it's mostly grown for foliage in the north, and not for its fruit.  Only the lemon tree has ... my care. I'm really not sure how to account for this developing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... grad student said, and see the professor is not there For the next two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  position the Institute for decades to come as a world hub of education ... structure for collaborative education, research and innovation, the MIT ... be not only a center of advances in computing, but also a place for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is ... , for fear that this exchange would repeat itself. I wanted to follow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012