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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  number of emails I get addressing me in sentences as Chrism. My name doesn ... This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  . Unfortunately I can't find a clip of it, but if you search YouTube you'll find a ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  , and hopefully, call in and vote. Here's ABC's summary of the show ... on Season 2 of Beauty and the Geek. Matt Herman '06 was a contest in ... I got this email a few days back... From: Laura Nicholson Subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  morning there. Course 16 at heart. I almost cried in front of the original ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  's something that I see even in the very walls of MIT. I know more people here ... -genius overnight, let alone at all. In honor of my 19th birthday (today!), I've been ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... Adams of Landing Studio. <br </br <br </br In studio, we

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  "hang out," as the kids say. I enjoy living in a place where we can have ... perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most ... to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group ... different from the rest of the FLCs in that what they offer is less about

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  methodology' in software development (mainly because I'm part of an agile scrum ... really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  harmful effects of inflation. I can add a little more about each. Laura is ... winner receives $100,000 and two years of support from Thiel's network in ... amount of voluntary exchange and cooperation in the world by revamping some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... Friday, Nov. 24.” I can’t believe I missed an opportunity to build

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... of MIT students are MIT students. Admissions officers can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire cabins. Given that 90% of the gifts I received for Christmas was outdoor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This ... should be keeping the Midyear Report in the back of your mind. All Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... of Wyoming. I was thrilled to join the planning team and attend the ... the history of potatoes at the Potato Museum in Idaho, and finished out

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the ... picnic a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing him and his band of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... cloning of the adiponectin receptor. Identified in the Lodish lab a few ... well as aids in the synthesis of glycogen (a large branched molecule that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  of there.  I am deeply ashamed of this.  Rats There are no rats in ... , down the ways a little bit. He was longboarding with a can of soda in ... there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  want to make the most informed decision we can; the disruptions of the ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a ... , congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2026. I'll be closing comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  . This year I didn’t partake in either.']another set of freshmen I don ... you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin ... manageable, less overwhelming to start. Of course, you can only fool yourself

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018