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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... you can, especially DME!) 9/1 (27425 steps) I live in MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  . MIT "hacking war". I remember eating dinner in the 4th West diner at two ... A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach ... For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned ... the DNA into the nucleus, which Sid achieved by encapsulating the DNA in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the ... 't actually come in contact with since my senior year of high school. I'm going

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  . (Can you pick me out in that picture? Let's play Where's Mollie!) I also ... of flexibility in making food that tastes good but is also healthy. (I ... laziness factor is keeping me in low-cal chips and salsa. I just ate a slice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces ... "]FPOPs[/annotation] that I participated in or TA-ed, like my trips to Yellowstone. While not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... ="53276" image3="53274" image4="53275" image5="53273" image6="53277" /] I’m in the ... past five years now, and it’s finally settling in that I don’t even know

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  Back in the fall, I wasn't really sure if I made the right choice ... really weird when you get home in the evening. Close the door – I live in ... ziplock bag. Back in my room, I put one card on a shelf near my radiator. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... technological initiatives than I ever did in class. They really opened up my mind ... TEDxCambridge 2013 official photos page. Psst: I'm in 3 of these

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I ... shadow I grew up in. It’s a truly lively city with a lot of diversity and ... This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I ... all of the letters first class, and I hope nearly everyone will have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  up with decisions; apologies in advance!] Okay, it's 11pm and I haven ... I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding ... 't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but a forthcoming software patch should (hopefully) fix that. I think the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... Cormick. This is my room just after I moved in. It doesn’t really look like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about ... -programming. Behold in Awesome Wonderment the pace from which I execute MIT Admissions ... staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005