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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 ... Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank

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

  We Were Deferred

  

  probably 6:30 or 6:31 pm. We logged in. Our letters wouldn't load for a dreadfully long time. Here is a gif portraying the eternal and existential ... comparing ourselves to others we knew of that got in. We just thought a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and technology. Through recognition of architecture as a liberal discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  exploration is a fine substitution. It's just like non-carcinogenic sugar ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... ." Yay! Below is a photo of our cabins. Instead of telling you about the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... …or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the ... not, Orientation is also a great opportunity to learn about internships

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  Institute of Tech, Technology, is a good technical school. Math and science ... 'd probably do a career in something math and science. Back in the late '70s or ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  -- plus 18) to change the policy. :-P (For Karen, below: A legacy is an ... began promoting Adam to me in the most unsubtle way possible, and being a ... later, a bunch of people were sitting in my room gabbing on a Friday night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  went in it, but additionally learned a lot about the process of economics ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for ... gibberish, but it's still impressive-looking. Below is a non

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting ... through a phone camera. In that case, the Moiré pattern comes from the fact

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found that having a job and participating in an extracurricular activity have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in ... made a ton of friends in the Messenger groupchats that I spent a lot of ... . that's about it! there is SO much to do on campus—in addition to all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until ... were fixated on MIT, we did not question that we would major in a STEM

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer ... .Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  progress in the gym is going to slip away. But I am most definitely in a ... . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... and have been in front of a computer since the age of 3 and never, ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  -Entry Thanksgiving Dinner A new tradition we started in A-entry this year. Each person was asked to bring a dish and we all got together to eat. A-entry is ... Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  's not a priority. The only thing is that it's only offered in the fall, so ... that this class is exactly the same as a class in a different major ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... final project presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ... , and Joonho should be doing that in a few days (he got a press pass for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016