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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

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

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  through the online reply form at MyMIT. You have three choices: tell us you're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  's room. Now the concept of spraying water at each other *indoors* seems ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  floor of the student center, where I saw Petey. I remember staring at him ... real feel of -15 degrees. Just don’t do this one. Highly not recommended ... lot of afterschool programs at local high schools that I would like to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  : not the 1000-1500 degrees C of red-hot metal, but ~2400 degrees of white ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the ... from my high school at year 03. Am i too old to get the bachelor degree ... like that shade of Blue/Green, btw. Evan replied: Adam - different dorms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There ... . 2. You actually need study skills at MIT. Okay, so this is kind of a ... instance. At the beginning of the semester, I dutifully sat at my desk in my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... laboratory of Drew Endy, now an assistant professor of bioengineering at ... last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab, one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  makes calling people back at home hard to schedule. i have memories of ... the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  honest account, even if it’s overwhelming at times. Please take care of ... , on-campus resources at the end of the article, as well as some notes if ... questions at the early half of my recovery, I know it would have been

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  that he offered to share:       Hope to see you both -- and the rest of ... deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... number. At some point in high school, I had 100 digits of tau memorized

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... completely worth it: Did you hear the voices at the end of the video ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006