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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  didn’t refine my short answers for hours or give them to a second party ... , to fangirl, and maybe to show how MIT can become a home for fellow I ... Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... that week, I returned home to Maryland with two friends, for whom I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  to go - you certainly have to figure out what works for you. The faster ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  't finish our toy 10 minutes before we had to be there for presentations ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  textbook, so he didn't even have to pay for a book!   Warren ... precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... them independently, that's fine too. (For example, if you love baking

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the ... everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... 's Animal Kingdom And then proceeded to return to MIT for my EMT class, from ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... what’s *really* important to me. For example, I was invited to join the ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  .2060 for answering a question in lecture. I've taped it to the inside of the ... never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  MISTI is pleased to announce the launch of its eleventh country ... Economy, Development and Tourism, MIT-Chile will create opportunities for MIT faculty and students to connect with research and innovation in

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  collecting items for a Concord Market feast. There were so many things to ... . '27 (a sophomore, who is lucky to be able to enjoy Concord Market for ... The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... because for a moment I had almost began to take it all for granted. Wow ... talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... too high for me to muster. Don't you forget to enter it either, Class of ... most of the interns who have been here for three to five months are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a job. He says, "at MIT, it's good to always be on the lookout for ... minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, must be for having not one ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical

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

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... information for various teams at the company, so I got to learn a lot about cool ... for that"]understand.[/annotation] What I’m trying to understand, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their ... for you. =P Now that I've actually been to classes, I can share them ... !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006