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• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  biomimetics at the University of Bath in England and has collaborated with MIT ... television... well, I've declared myself that and nobody has ever contradicted ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• 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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... things about MIT--the hacks, the zany, nerdy students building (and ... --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  -called "peer institutions" have "prettier" campuses than MIT, and I would be ... school senior from India and thereby an international candidate.I am one of ... -material like a letter stating why one wants to study there or the optional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon ... internships and got some much-less-fancy rejection emails. (Which wasn't too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... a half, since painting is allowed in Senior House and Institute White ... noodles until we get scurvy and staying up until 4AM day after day

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  system. Polarization At Disney World, Universal Studios and other 3-D ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... . Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... and pick the place where you fit in best with the culture and residents ... years and upperclassmen, and get a feel for everything MIT has to offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day." and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email ... 've ever seen. And Ruth '07 agrees with me. Speaking of Ruth '07, this is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  ? Summer is slipping away and the crisp New England weather is looming just ... 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 prepares to take their place as matriculated students at MIT, and future

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  cut looked like, I bought a pick and went on with life as usual ... movie (Hackers) and fell in love with the concept of Computer Science. A ... a Gibson and get the girl (Angelina Jolie). He started off simple

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  and development, like Ashesi University, whose founder quit Microsoft to ... University of Ghana’s Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID ... , who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... 11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my alarm clock and slept until my cat jumped on my chest which was around 1

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... changes in the early application policies of some of our peer institutions have increased the number of outstanding applications to MIT and to many

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June. Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering ... Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering to be awarded on the ... next month's faculty meeting, and available starting with the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and ... Many applicants and incoming freshman have concerns about whether MIT ... MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor in Political Science. Two and a half years ago, after graduating again from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... classes and why we push ourselves so hard, Or to sigh as we decipher dusty ... softly smiling and our eyes Probing with a questioning light We rub our

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012