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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT ... 's actually found at decreased levels! The signaling receptor of adiponectin is ... of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  had heard of (remember, the Internet was in its infancy at the time ... MIT admissions process look at this as a factor? Why? It seems to me ... might be, are spending more and more of their precious childhood

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  void of companionship taught me that. At MIT, I rarely do things alone ... driver who whisked me to the start of the AT in Georgia) told me. And he ... , occasionally, on NPR blaring through a $6 radio. At MIT, the pace of life is much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  are two people giving shots at each table, and as soon as one of them ... . That’s the kind of commitment you’ll find here at MIT, when people work ... Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... of our hall members, we (the 21+) went to an adult dance party at a local club. At this club, everyone happened to look like a member of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  has gathered at the front of the room to talk with the speaker and each ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... .05 (Quantum II) so that's kind of exciting. 17 minutes ago, Professor Moore was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  preview of the finished project, or at least the project as it is now. We ... 'm terrible at explaining these sorts of things). Sometime soon I'll do another ... And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  of Mocha Show the other day and could only marvel at how fulfilling it ... of bed at 8:45 am, briefly consider shirking my duties to get more ... !! sprinting across Briggs Field at 2 am one of my closest friends at MIT lives

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  : the rush of wind past a double-decker train (nothing) Breaking my “at ... few minutes listening to the two people—one of them a train conductor—at ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... . Kids laughing.  Fun costumes. Some kids crying at the sight of a skeleton ... how it connects us. At MIT, we read applications from every kind of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... 's hard not to be hopeful. At the rally, one of the speakers had said that ... 's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors ... looking at pictures of agarose gels for my UROP, doing my 6.042 (Math for ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos ... orders aside, you are correct. I will be working at Los Alamos National

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day ... competition, running a Book Exchange for students at the beginning of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... should be about as good at taekwondo as I am at chemical engineering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... with all the members of Toons at that callback, I really enjoyed it. It ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  rest at the roots of the ecosystem we are all a part of: generosity ... connection only when I’m at the precipice of catastrophe; I want to appreciate ... ’s abundant. I am not always doing my best at all of these things, but I am

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012