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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  the TA dutifully sat in a chair at the front of the classroom as Yaffe ... for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , by the end of the selection process, you are at least minimally ... you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... :18 PM[/caption] In case you couldn't tell, there's a lot of snow at MIT ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... Toronto. I interviewed at a lot of places. I gradually got better at ... never look back. I have a lot of FOMO--about not being at a startup, about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  note="2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities"](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the rain that sort of derailed our plans. I hadn't been camping since high

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  've been watching movies every night at 9pm because of Discord's screenshare ... at least a little bit of work. At least 30 minutes of work. It doesn ... Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  wanted to spend at least some part of IAP at home, I turned to Infinite ... look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... of movies with unexpected twists at the end so if you have any

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from ... better. the food wasn't too bad, and at least neither of us spent any money

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  market success at a time when all of our conversations are focusing on the ... passion and at least some of the expertise one associates with the most ... answer," he says. Fan websites offer plot summaries of all the books, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  distractions are simply part of existence here at MIT. You have to be able to ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  research, at least in biology, is driven by questions of cause and effect. If ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... , aka HackMIT, is the biggest hackathon at MIT and one of the biggest in ... my soul to HackMIT at the start of freshman fall. I was head of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... girls there are so sweet and good at cooking, so I got to eat a lot of ... volunteer at the MIT Science Olympiad. Being on the other side of all the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... was hanging out with one of my friends at school. we walked through an ... undergrad at mit, and it is a foregone conclusion that most of my friends will

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... things: all that training at the beginning of the summer to be an analyst ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011