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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... some random strangers speaking in German on the train if you don’t know

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  also helps if you can read quickly -- there's a lot of reading in college ... that are homozygous for a deletion in ced-9 are inviable. You suspect ... tether it there. You want to examine CED-4 localization in these ced-9 null

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  my literary career. Just in time to introduce you to Random Hall ... the room was absolutely hideous, as you can clearly tell from the ... Survivorman. Dinner segued into a socialization period in which YouTube videos

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet ... /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  assured that you can't find it in Boston. We made a trip today to my ... up in a few episodes of MythBusters and begged out. So you can yell at ... because I'm funded through Morgan's RIKEN grant, as you can see from this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can

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

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... you know it used to be Metallurgy back in 1873? But even that wasn’t its ... you’re a prefrosh reading this and thinking of living in Maseeh, don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  while you’re an undergrad"]UROPs[/annotation] with professors in EAPS ... get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor doing work you’re interested in and email them! Undergrads also often go

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... best to get you psyched about MIT. But anxiety runs high, as you've demonstrated in the comments. And we'll defer 5 out of 6 of you, and sadly, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  a website called Project Happy Memory, which you can check out here ... could! Yayy. (2) I know many of you are at the point in your school year ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  that if you know what major you want to pursue, you can declare it and be assigned a departmental advisor, who can guide you through the course ... am utterly in love with this building. Everything from its 90-foot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... causes where I can make a difference. While in grad school at UD I had the ... enjoyed that recruiting thing last week - too bad you can't do that as a job

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  [Burton Conner – the Burton side]. If you get this, you can laugh ... squares are… well. You’ll see in the picture below. Later, I ... ; Fangfei: “You’ve GOT to be kidding me.” (In reference to

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one ... of that, thank you. I'm 2A-CIR. Now, what in the hell does that mean

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  to an MIT prankster 3. Hey, you can even skip the PhD altogether, just ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  always rewiring. So you can learn anything you want and change your habits ... Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  as close to "apartment-style" living as you can get in the dorms. This ... When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  better. Hi, I’m Michelle, and it’s super nice to meet you! If you didn ... does physics AP credit kind of strangely. You can get credit for 8.01 (Classical Mechanics) with 5s on both AP Physics C tests, but you can’t get

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  twenty bucks I’m not getting in.” “I’ll bet you twenty that you are ... in your wallet?” “I’m not telling you.” For some reason, I didn’t want ... felt the same way I did, you can try this bet with a friend or a loved

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023