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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a ... myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating ... important institution in the scientific community, the global society, and the fabric of reality, that if it changes its schedule for even one day without

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  average Research & Development cost of one drug is around $850 million ... the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  of questions MIT alums ask each other when they meet: what course were you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering students will be equipped to handle upper level classes. But instead of ... the engine is only half of the process. The machining is divided between

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  faculty in their own areas of MIT! Managing OLW's technology development ... This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... enormously rewarding. After we all gather around the table, Marilee offers ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  think it was pi beta phi, and standing on top of those low brick walls in front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... students without leaving my chair. i attended the first week of classes, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors ... offer that expert food, he or she is probably more than happy to talk to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret ... basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... morning, leapt out of bed, turned off my alarm, and then awoke again. This particular Saturday, my early awakening was the result of a yoga makeup class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008