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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  - and I'm incredibly excited to be a part (however small) of the new ... knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat ... are at the top; bands marking the ends of DNA fragments of decreasing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  doing nothing at all. I couldn’t stop smiling. So then, of course, I had ... exciting. I also won’t deny that being at specifically MIT has a bit of its ... too much of the college content out there (or at least the content I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... experience. Sure, there are a half-dozen people at each of the schools I ... , distance: all of those factors I mentioned at the beginning are real. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  math class, trying to figure out the last bits of the pset due at 8. I ... beautiful city in the world. I’m serious. It’s incredible. Look at this ... gorgeous. I’ve been here before. None of the places I’ve walked so far are

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  skilled at dissection requires a bit of patience and lots of practice ... "Established for the Advancement of Science" suddenly held an entirely new ... Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral ... at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... 7) motorcycle against a backdrop of midgar at night ... first twenty minutes of the game, up to the first boss fight! the new

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  hard together, harder than we think at any other time of the year ... friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at ... : making it feel good and fun to all kinds of teams, small and big, new and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the ... noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• 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

  

  a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day ... recruiting new pledges and helping them go through the process of becoming ... competition, running a Book Exchange for students at the beginning of the

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

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of ... saved at whatever cost. The fears of State Street and the prejudices of Beacon Street may have some effect, but the great mass of New England and

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  part of bioengineering here at MIT, where so many fantastic discoveries ... As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... provides all students with a common core of foundational scientific knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... unremarkable day. It’s the middle of the school week. Adults are adrift at work ... ’re all at risk of dying at any point, from disease, from an electrical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  time to learn a new skill. It’s okay to be a n00b at age eighteen ... some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many of you probably have been playing an instrument for years or

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... study. I kept stopping to look out at the amazing views. It's now one of ... at an open house about quantum information hosted by the the Museum of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020