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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  (I read that in Nature last week while eating lunch at the lab. Guess I ... ? Cause, I mean, heaven knows I eat and sleep and whine in the lounge and ... another "day in the life", only on a day when I have nothing to do. 2. Adnan

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... → ∞, V(t) → V(∞) ≡ E_L + R_mI_e. Setting t_0 equal to the current time in ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy ... : Prajna: "my mom thought i would never learn to drive but if she could look at me now" me: "she would be like you still can't" Zimi: "i hate when

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the ... semester, a class I profiled here. Last week, Time Magazine announced ... . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... study!) So I guess the wine in the wine glass represents our brains

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  twelve rows back in the stands, I was still deathly afraid of being ... , because that's spring break. I'd say middle of March to early April would ... . Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the ... . I mean, what good does it do you to be competitive? Nobody would help ... One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  Center for Cancer Research, where I did my first UROP (well, not in his lab in particular, just in the same building.) I'm sure he would draw your ... Yesterday, I attended my last 7.05 (Biochemistry) lecture taught by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  the other teams. I put in hundreds of hours writing and test ... together in front of the curtain. I had the best seat in the house to ... -case gains”). Raw Bar was a late-in-the-day idea. I was looking over a sushi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  out. Earlier in my career, I remember once asking a senior colleague ... I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  December 20 would be the likely dates, but it could be any day in December ... specific dates for decisions would be just that -- speculation. I promise you ... countries). I have a few updated notes for applicants in these countries. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  coconut curry flatbread. Although in retrospect, I think it would have ... the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... transcript follows] Me: I think I'm taking intro class on programming in C

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the ... . ;-) * * * I was expecting a lull in my workload after CPW, but it hasn't exactly

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  Hello party people!  I know. November 1 is looming and you are ... today, I've been helping answer your calls and want you to know that ... , so I'm listing the most common questions we're getting below. I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  in their applications to other great schools. Unfortunately, I suspect ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window ... mistaken for anything else. Jane asked, "I always wondered....why is MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was in a double, but this year we do have people in doubles, so i am now in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... of things off my proverbial plate."]Awhile ago,[/annotation] I got an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021