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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of ... humbling and amazing. I found out that it takes 20 years, on average, for a ... Merck for the day and start my 1.5- hour-long trip home. And this is where

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I wrote for my HASS on Tuesday. Today is an awesome day. Hopefully I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I ... access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a ... Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  enroll elsewhere. For Ben, this was truly more than a job. So please use the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a ... away from 4-hour lab blocks for a month or two. Also, I got an A in the ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... art. The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is like a free outdoor museum exhibit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  experienced writer/typist would compose a personal poem for them on the spot ... Convention Center, the BIABF was a bit like the MIT Career Fair but with coat ... "antiquarian book" is, the Fair’s website has got you covered. Such a book is one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  walking speed.) A few weeks ago, I decided to stay in Cambridge for the ... condition for not exceedingly high prices. But I am a sucker for the color ... the rear bearing), and voila! A bike for commuting around Cambridge

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... during CPW writing a live-action roleplaying game for the Assassins ... of the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal preparing for MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for ... endanger their health or the health of the people around them by taking a ... preparedness for MIT, and with the knowledge that tests are only one factor among

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  have less “free-time”, but I made up for a lot of the busy time during ... arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl for post-graduation opportunities. This means talking to the career ... upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  teaches 7.05, is a major spokesperson for the "RNA world" theory and just ... that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no ... stay on campus for the summer, so it's extremely easy to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  adventures. We wait for the skies to darken and watch supernovas explode to a ... , museums around the world would clamor for a piece of my canvas. I can’t stay ... , beholding the warmth that surrounds me. Your voices would sound like a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a ... alive for…That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014