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• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found ... hours a day. You're probably used to being in class seven or eight hours a ... was way too absurdly busy in high school to work. I heard about the job

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... challenged ourselves to get full use of our all-access passes and ride every ... names! On the flight to Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer ... something, because everyone else in the room went "mmmm!" very sagely, to ... :female ratio in Viking land was very high) went to Ireland and, in Prof. Mc

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in ... working together to solve the most critical problems in biomedicine. "> ... MIT, you can choose to take part in real cutting-edge research through

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... term. I need to keep this in easily accessible form because I am ... was little, I used to always get a 96-box of Crayola crayons for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... going to present in higher dimensions). I.e., the number of points in $A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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