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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  , whether consciously or subconsciously,  choose to portray issues. The first ... We're well into Quarter 3 and my first midterms are quickly approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  first took flight Saturday: Visit one of the local theme parks to ... incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to help welcome you to MIT. Starting

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... . And it links it directly to the item that basically controls my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  entering UPenn to study physics this fall after taking a gap year. First ... QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... to that crazy Institvte up north. (I still remember writing this blog

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  my first blueberry bagel ever and decided immediately to eat many more ... that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact ... that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  the Henry Ford Museum. But all that's about to change. First of all, I ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the persistent and preventable problem of access to clean drinking water. They hope

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  commitment. While he was lucky to receive a UROP after his first interview, he ... microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  'll write, oops. i'm also looking forward to running my first guild game! it ... parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  first assignment was to profile a person or a place in about two minutes ... Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  knowing that it was our first concert, but... it'd be hard to list all the ... I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  Corn Dog's first test: the taxi mission. The airplane had to taxi (roll ... paraded their airplane into the hangar, it was common to overhear good ... , and compliments about everything from the landing gear design to the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  to make a dance/drama. The dance can depict epics. It's the first form ... presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor ... Red Cross staff to local schools and community events to speak with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006