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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... and prevent cancer. [...] The project, which might end up with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  large as 30 skaters to compete for a spot at the Intercollegiate National ... , as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all ... , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a ... ,000 participants for a fundraising Walkathon and Family Day Fair with the theme ... New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... one in the 180’s. This number stood atop the jar for a contestant named ... -- “Maggie Lloyd.” The room erupted into more cheers. For a split second, my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  a vegan diet by 70%). Cows and sheep are responsible for 37% of the ... :  70% of the world's fresh water is used for agriculture. Almost a ... This post was written for the final project for 24.03 Good Food: The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  for a follow-the-leader style dance! Music: On Friday, Oct. 24th, we ... , ready to watch some ghosts. We chilled in the destination location for a ... overlayed the MP3, it was completely silent there for anybody not a ghost

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... a very pleasant place to stay. It felt much more relaxed than the ... a hill (the site was first chosen as a French military fort, after all

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  and management. The big drawbacks of playing a sport at MIT, for me ... sacrifice. For me, the tradeoff makes sense. Staying healthy and being a ... spots on the hockey and lacrosse teams for any other opportunity at MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... ://web.mit.edu/spotlight/lookback-2006/ for a look back at the spotlights. So what’s in store for 2007 ... a new graduate dorm, pioneered a center for synthetic biology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... nothing wrong, that the applicant was a wonderful person, and it just came down to the fact that we don't have room for every excellent student who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv ... Pocket, a billiards simulator for the SNES released in 1993. It was great ... played for a little while and just chatted and had fun.  The girls, on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... session on the Dot being held by a mutual friend, Christian Ternus '10 ... included a rather interesting but incredibly appropriate location: the roof

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We ... basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  notebook, and she greets me good morning too. I work on a problem set for the ... the middle of rural Pennsylvania, and then we talk for a while about ... . I check my phone for a few minutes before I head to the kitchen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  the time. For those of you with an Asian Students Club or a Film ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian ... and Long Beach, CA). In subject matter, it was a little like the PBS

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  insisted he come outside for a few minutes. The youngster began juggling ... University stood out, but for the wrong reasons. Raymond A. Brown, dean of ... From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  spent a lot of time closely inspecting and growing a deep love for the ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... peculiarly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering, mechanical skills

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  is perhaps the most egregious. I know crying is a healthy outlet for ... . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not ... ’t stand the taste of water that’s been sitting in a metal container for too

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  , Wednesday, the pre-Orientation program I'll be a counselor for begins, and we ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... Cinderellas, we head over to the Walker basement for the show. I'd never been

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005