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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to complement the substance of our life experiences, or something equally

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor ... series of dings whenever they open, but, like the distinct colors of their ... as can be, and as the farthest elevator from the entrance of Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized ... conveniently cut off uniform sized strips or squares of 2" (50.8 mm) length. The ... asked about the availability of some other thickness, there is, at this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... the end of the semester and fifteen more the following semester! A lot ... called Significant Figures that talks about the histories of some of the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and ... cloning of the adiponectin receptor. Identified in the Lodish lab a few ... and the liver to promote the metabolism of fatty acids and glucose, as

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write ... drinking tea all the time is kind of true. At 11 am everyday, my department

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application portal. Materials submitted through sources other than the application ... business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  . Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods highlighted in the ... cake, deviled eggs, onigiri, and pork stew. The strawberry kiwi punch is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  to look at the work of the D-LAB, Jameel Poverty Action Lab, One Laptop ... examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... Students' Union, the MIT Caribbean Club, and the MIT chapter of the National ... come see it! Come join us at the 2006 production of The Vagina Monologues

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package ... -March for Regular Action. We'll email instructions for accessing the decision letters as soon as the official release date(s) and time(s) have been
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  promise you: the excitement never wears off! Even after a day full of ... of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon as I stepped out of the cab, I could tell that everyone else felt the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... middle of a field. "How interesting", observed the astronomer, "all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the sands of Lake Michigan or small lakes in Wisconsin and Michigan. Living ... longer. Even better, many of them are accessible via the commuter rail

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... taught it, Fall 2012, he earned a 6.8/7.0 teaching score in the end of term ... gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  fish. But a conventional fish finder examines only a small slice of the ... square miles of the ocean and find millions of fish. Rather than being used ... conservationists to study the behavior of large populations, what marine biologists

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... Night of Toolage: a long, long night of grueling problem sets due the next

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

   (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in ... a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... determined that santa monica studio (the place i work) had bought all of its

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019