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• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... 's all, "Oh, I'll just do it tonight! Maybe you can come over and we can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic and that you'd appreciate the update. All I can say is that we're trying ... answered then. In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed! I know mine are.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... conditions of women at MIT. I have personally witnessed a shortage of women in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... my PE requirement in the last 6 weeks of college makes me "that senior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  these types of experiences. But she didn’t. In retrospect, I feel ... woman can emerge into her own The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  organization on Harvard's campus. The shelter is in the basement of the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... there ahead of me. Then, I wanted to climb up into the ventilator, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and ... Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My turn! So this semester, I took Quantitative Physiology I: Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  important. In the vein of what I said about not writing an unconventional ... , especially in personal essays. But then again, part of my personality is that I ... mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  fluffy manes/tails. But because I am so cool and talented, I can easily ... says she has never seen glass ponies like this before, which I can only ... out and start selling glass ponies in the streets of Venice. [image

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will be one of many counselors who will supervise campers in August. “Kids

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  here. Unfortunately I can only mention in passing that the president of ... I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... (alongside tours!). I've embedded all the 2021 i3 videos below in case you ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of ... . For now, I’m struggling to coordinate communications between people in ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  , push it all the way in, or pull it most of the way out. *I made that up ... over a couple of times. In my frenzy, I smacked the mouthpiece into my ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an ... in. A lot of the research that is being done is years from becoming practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I ... one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022