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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese ... maintaining the trails there, so I can imagine that a trip there would be quite the treat! In his free time (yes he has free time, who would have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... weekend, but as long as you understand that coming in to the weekend, I ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... backs of donkeys in the developing world, said, “The reason I love working ... and make it work in the world. " Now that’s a theme I can really stand

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  neat historical sites in Boston. I signed up for this FPOP because I ... Orientation are quite similar. In fact, the reasons I admire the Founding ... I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  about last semester, but I didn't have the time. I think it would be kinda ... Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most ... , maybe I just miss the freedom that comes with being away from home, but I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on ... might have underestimated the extent to which I would be challenged by my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  comprehensive and tested action plans in place, which they would implement in the ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... afternoon, Wednesday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel. We anticipate that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international ... squeezed in an hour-long workout. With the rest of my day, I will work in my

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  dozen times in several disorienting patterns of color.  As I wander ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  important to you. That said, you're probably wondering why I would expose ... between work and fun, and I would think that's true for most students here ... they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... ribs I'd ever had in my life. My hunger tore through me. The world went ... , shoving it in my pocket, so I couldn't be identified while I was Food

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... separately but not together. No one warned me how chaotic timing would be

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling ... Mikey since last year's waitlist decisions were posted in May?!" Well

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  one really good piece of advice, I would keep this list to heart. Now ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the ... do them? (I tend to limit my response to no more than 3 activities in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... was to wear heels in the snow, as if we were all wearing heels. (NOTE: I honestly can't decide if that would've been worse). But once we settled in to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  the college application process was over, all the complications in life would vanish. Not so. After I mailed in my deposit, I received an ... it would be a great way to continue my love for art in a, well, tech

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... lecture was the only circumstance in which he would be admitted to MIT ... Vermillion in 1962.”) He also joked about how he was afraid that he would also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to ... I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was ... costumes in class! After class ended around 4pm (6.0002 recitation), I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... should I attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013