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• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast ... built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  what I mean?) Bezel The 2006 beaver is supposed to look a little more ... 's holding a scroll to represent knowledge, and a globe to represent the way ... fundamentally the fact that we were the first class to have A/B/C/no record second

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... of excellence in math, science and engineering will tend to fare well ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4 ... me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben ... (discussion of all five of my top-5 favorite classes in a future post). Even if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run it on an agarose gel which sits in an electric field, in order to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  learn and be challenged here, even if, to paraphrase a comment I saw in an ... Cluster here, and fallen asleep next to a window in building 26 after coming ... have a friend who received her acceptance to MIT while she was living in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor ... I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  days to account for the way Christmas, New Years, etc fall in any given ... to participate in just about any of them. There are for-credit classes ... obviously only applies to for-credit subjects) and a few other restrictions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... . ... Without laws of nature to anchor them, algorithms used in such subjective ... analogies from the past to their lay image of the new technology, create a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... to call the final presentations a competition, at least in the usual ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody ... like 4 hours long in the dead of winter. So it's kind of a good idea, if ... DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites ... bumping threads on the third-party sites in an effort to minimize the damage

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  the Welcome Center a good front door to the Institute. In order to do ... included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map ... . On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I ... a 60L hiking backpack onto my shoulders and flew to Quito, the capital

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  , Chip Quinn, is nuts. In a good way. It's like, somebody threw my General Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  it would be a great way to continue my love for art in a, well, tech ... to the window. A few of us exchanged dubious looks before filing in ... even a trip to the opera house. I’m always excited or the events

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even ... in the hopes of securing a game buddy. “Nah,” he said, shaking his ... balled up a white t-shirt covered in even more Twister polka-dots and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... Celebration, a three-day conference for women in computer science. It was so ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . As a result, starting to take courses relevant to our major in a ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since ... time to cook more than once a week anymore. On weekdays, I'm working

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020