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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  . I've learned that fear is often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning ... electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend part of my summer in Patagonia, Argentina ... I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  I also know, though, is that there is a certain merit in all of these ... in other outlets. I hope you can sit down and pet a dog. Or paint a ... rejection in your life by no means defines your worth or value. I hope you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... to support students. I considered majoring in Architecture when I was ... . I promised a student interested in dance that I'd post some links here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) -- So anyone who knows me knows that I have strange computer habits/superstitions such as keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans ... One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... element was being suppressed in favor of talking up the product. (I know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  after graduation)—and yes, I've witnessed these responses in the wild ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  In spirit, not much has changed over the last three years. Hi. I ... optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  , i just ran around the floor screaming me: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  I just presented some intercultural communication challenges in the ... term, or even one or two in the fall. I guess it depends on the four-year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... Wednesdays. My classes don't start until 11 AM each morning, and I have plenty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , in reverse chronological order: I recently dropped a class, and even ... only classes I’ve gotten A’s in have been HASS classes. I didn’t get any leadership positions in the clubs I participated in. I didn’t have a fancy tech

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... hard work on your applications; I promise you we're responding in kind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of ... -apartments. The suite I'm sitting in right now houses 8 people, the largest suite on

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested ... studying, because most korean parents can be... In retrospect, I feel like ... I'm taking 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) this semester, which is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... our customer," and MEAN it this time. I could tell you a story about a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... study-abroad in South Africa, where I got to meet some of the kindest of ... ) Watch the sunset on a boat in Boston Harbor 18) Retook a class I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019