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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a ... you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sure they would be worth less in total than this microscope.) I wish I ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... , because the last time I'd been in any talent competition, it had been at my ... students are really quite good at the things they do in their spare time. I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert ... Monkeyluv last week, and I am currently in the middle of a book I've been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  :) Nonetheless, I'm currently in Barker - MIT's engineering library. It's right ... love sweatpants. I would wear them 24/7 - except it's not 100% socially acceptable to do that... In any case ~ I wish all of you the best with your

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... /how long until I take classes in my major, the first thing I mention is the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  taking and trusting that somehow in the future, I would eventually graduate ... semesters, I would only have to take 3-4 classes to graduate in the spring of ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order ... , admit it, that's more money than you've ever seen in person) While there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  teens hadn”t seen me for four days in a row and I knew that they would have things to tell me about their life. I knew they would want to connect with me before the play and an hour drive in close confinement would

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  markers of excellence in their application and I will understand that their ... you. Also, I personally love it when students let me know about ways in ... declaration is the best way to go. In an ideal world, everyone would inquire

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... the new Brass Rat design. I went to the Class of 2022 Ring Premiere in ... while I waited in line. I ordered two rings: one [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do ... to write in for the blogs, since it comes most naturally to me. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  shy and afraid of us, so I—in typical dumb 10-year old fashion—would ... soon as I stepped in the room where she would be put down, I felt an ... . however, in the past few weeks, I've been confronted with more and more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for ... when he said "I've never been to Iceland, but I do believe it would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph ... your emails. Guess I’m just a sucker for Cool Data Things. In general

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  focus. I looked at many programs, but in the end decided that IHP would ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks ... that affect cities. I had always expected to study abroad in college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking ... - what I - hoped for. I had felt the despair sinking in for months now ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both ... student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened ... is not a "one size fits all" school. As a current student, I would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... was also one of the more surreal mornings I've ever had in recent memory

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  them seem to be very interested in undergrads -- I think they find us ... in Biology. I wonder if vocabulary will be a hard job for students who ... years of science)and plan to apply to MIT to major in biology. How would

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006