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• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  done and knew that I had to get tested. I had my blood drawn and sent to ... to terms with destiny, deciding to get surgery and when, figuring out ... of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... country from San Francisco to Washington D.C., stopping at high schools to ... Plants” and “Eyewire: A Game to Map the Brain”) Images from the Spokes

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... get to just relax until fall travel starts up again?" Not exactly. May

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  yourself to sit through bad, hoping that it will get better, because if you ... if you want to. Personally I wasn't able to get credit for 18.01 and 8 ... 're going to have friends who get periods. you can be the hero of the story

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... prodding my siblings ever-so-often to end their summer vacation and return to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  able to enjoy things without getting obsessed the way I used to felt like ... to talk about my favorite characters without getting embarrassed or ... taught him how to get it on his Mac, which might have been a mistake

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan of all places? Wouldn't other countries be more fun to visit?" Like my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this, and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  strong on my quest to get the Pirate's License. While I came for the ... First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  felt like this was enough of an issue that I wanted to get my thoughts ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a ... path I really wanted to follow. So I switched to course 2A with 15

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  'll get to see Melis dance! I should probably blog this.* Me: "Absolutely I ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... time that feels like it's being wasted. As such, I decided to take most

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them ... exhausting. I don't think I went to bed before 5 every morning. From BBQs to building things in East Campus to leading dorms tours to Meet the Bloggers to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  genuine interest in your studies and hard work will enable you to get ... . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart ... Khademhosseini has utilized cutting-edge techniques to mimic the microenvironment

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  that I get all the captains on board with what they need to do, schedule ... get answers to their fabulous questions (ex. why are wood fires red and ... topics, or digitize all of them and get people to respond online. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  . When humans are hungry, they need food in order to get back to being in ... help quickly get down to implementing all the UI for the calculator ... get into the EQUAL state. Pressing RES takes us back to TRANSITION FROM

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  will be ecstatic to get their decision; many more will be disappointed ... thought, "I get it, I know why people wouldn't want to come here." It's not ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010