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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  sequence. This is a data sample of a portion of the Arabidopsis metabolome. The rows are the variating Arabidopsis lines, and each column is a ... When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... different activity options in the late afternoon ("cloud-watching" is there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... ).  Be warned, though: it is quite pricey (starting at ~$1700 with a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... so. many. cranberries in my freezer), but others were friendly tips. A ... , shape, form, or box in my life, but I was more than willing to make a game

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors ... in a reasonable amount of effort over the break. (Kind of like high ... to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  highlight here is two amazing comics made for my writing class last semester. 21W.021, also known as "MIT 150:Inside, Live",  is a CI-HW (Writing ... prompt that resulted in these two comics was a simple one, "take your role

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of ... teens who get perfect scores on their PSAT's and participate in a host of ... cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  warmth. The world felt anew, like we were in the first episode of a new ... parking, which I had never seen in a city layout before. It felt like those ... (the first I had ever seen in Europe)! They even dubbed themselves a "fab

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  personalities in a way that feels natural, and much about those characters is ... mailing list is named—spot the reference?) is a cozy nine-person comics ... Simmons, and one person from my a cappella group. Sometimes the world is

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons ... In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  FIRST Championship. FIRST is a pretty cool organization, co-founded by MIT ... deadline for making your college decision. If your lingering issue is a ... , parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a ... are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -and-white answer in vain; that this is a question where you will only find answers by ... first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... from being able to really enjoy the semester in a variety of ways: I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  steak in a long time. esp has a yearly traditional texas roadhouse ... a game for the assassins guild. it didn't happen in 2022 or 2021, and ... wednesday night, i ate dinner at gyukaku, a yakiniku restaurant in harvard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  snag an unreserved table in the back with a fairly direct view of the ... : a professional beatboxer ranked among the top eight in the world 7 ... . Here is a brief breakdown of the classes I’m taking: ESD.054/ESD.05

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  also describes Liechtenstein thusly: "Mountainous, it is a winter sports resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven." Poor Liechtenstein ... I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... ! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  media in a way that our standard application is not. And while your Slide ... frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... alone, and we think that is great. You do not need to submit a portfolio

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  — this dystopian novel is set in the aftermath of a strain of swine flu ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020