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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that ... that the preview-function view of the answer shrinks the font, then I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in ... figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary ... 1997 and I spent most of the summer in Las Vegas (where my mom

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing ... orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened ... MyMIT. Remember that in the past two weeks we have been receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  the mouths of babes ("babes" as in "younger people!" geez!), I took some ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  can hurt me--and they do. (8) You're the best man I'll ever know. There's no way I can ever go. (9) Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to ... The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  —a shiny prize wheel in front of a heap of good prizes. A Harvard athlete ... by this cryptic message. We opened the app again. In the midst of ... since we haven't gone to any of Harvard's sports events in the first place

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  in the program and 12 upperclassman mentors explore one of six ... scene. You can read about all of the different FPOPs on the Orientation ... ! I'd like you to send me some of your pictures from your first days on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  yourself one of the most impressive things I’ve done in a while ... -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  prehealth major; rather, students can pursue a variety of majors and take classes in any department. However, students need to fulfill certain subject ... Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity ... favorite IM sport was ice hockey. I played a lot of roller hockey in high ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  the lobby, I told people that the score was 6-0 (true) in favor of the ... started in this job) because I really want for you to understand all of ... On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing ... the fugacity of carbon monoxide at 345 K, I'm more often than not ... I've always said I don't believe in linear time, but this is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006