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  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  busier at MIT, I personally preferred the hustle and bustle of MIT to the idyllic peace at Cambridge. At MIT, there was more of a sense of personal ... , at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  of them some tasty tangerines at the end! CPW is awesome. Everything is awesome right now at MIT, even if we have tons of work next week and ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of ... we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  on behalf of all the residents at Next. This semester Muriel added her full support after observing the RBA program at Next. And after a lot of ... was a great community where I still hang out and pset at frequently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  anything before it. None of this is the case at MIT. The students at MIT ... Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  *idea* of a Summer Job. And with that, on some level, we equated being at ... Computer Graphics Research at University of Miami Learning from Sophomore ... We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  here: please keep in mind that all of the following are, at worst, only ... % serious at best. By “at best,” I of course mean, “at funerals.”) -8 ... Buckethead walks back in at the end of his trip. Note: some details about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people ... Dordle, guessing two Wordles at once Squardle, guessing a grid of ... of a bygone era of the internet. Some highlights: The tiny text at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... Animation (taken at MassArt) Allan: 6.009 Fundamentals of Programming 6 ... during the rough spots of the semester, when every second had to be used at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  processing of all materials at this busy time. If you need to switch from ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  processing thousands of applicant documents at this time. If you have ... Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  sphere of flames. One squinted at the screen. “Shouldn’t we see it already ... scowled at him. “Our calculations aren’t wrong,” he said. “The transit of ... and eating bags of black tea at my final exams. For about a month after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  I've spent the last seven days at home, eating my favorite foods (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our ... college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ! Muhahahaha: Some of my sorority sisters at the event: ZBT shows their Greek ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... governing bodies at MIT) in another entry, but for now, what matters most is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  admissions decisions via the web. We will release decisions at decisions.mit.edu on Saturday, March 18 at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. There's not ... strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  boston at night grab your headphones

  

  bike ride down the esplanade, bridges, night fog, ducks on the river, street music, city magic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  -quantum alternatives did not fit at all. Finally, at the end of IAP (a week ago), I ... somehow still ended up winning one of the categories. At this point, I knew ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025