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• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  the M.Sc. in integrated immunology at Oxford. Two stories to share ... did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... blood in the sky. From the Man in the Moon, to the embittered savant ... ’re getting off track! Just stick to the original question! BEATRICE: The

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... students can be found here, with more information about next steps to come in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP! I also got started [annotation note="We're allowed to do this in EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to ... , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really ... 't have to rub it in.) The bottom line is, don't be afraid to reveal what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... 've been writing to since my freshman year in high school will be taking a

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

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into ... you might expect a typical freshman to take at MIT, in subjective order

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech ... nature, you can be in practically any science/engineering major and get ... department, researchers in the Lang Lab use a laser “tractor-beam” to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they ... siblings have made their way back here to live, or study in college.) Martín ... I respond to him in Spanish, then would return the note with his

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... stuff gets brought up in [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7.06[/annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  hours each week in office hours helping students get familiar with the ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an ... fraternities in Back Bay to Haymarket, an outdoor produce market in the North End

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  personalities. When I say that, I'm not just referring to undergraduates, but also to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... here, right now I want to focus on an aspect of diversity I never fully

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to meet George Takei? Did you get to hang out with him more than was shown in episode 2? It was AWESOME to meet George Takei. We did get to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  events led to me, a high-schooler, getting the opportunity to work in a ... apply to in the fall, mostly because I had no frame of reference for which ... papers to read, but it felt like they were in [annotation note="which added

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  in JPAL, and more. When I would be able to get back to India I'm ... real feel for academic culture in India. The freedom to pursue topics ... talking to such a diverse group has helped me tremendously in learning about

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  weekend, but as long as you understand that coming in to the weekend, I ... opportunities to see labs. In part, this is because labs are not designed for ... many more opportunities to have meaningful interaction with faculty, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... took our class to Boxaroo (an escape room in Boston founded by MIT Alums

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out ... of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015