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• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  needed for future research from several years to less than a week. Jamie ... Proteinases of C. albicans Using a Combinatorial Approach," could improve the ... Theory of Partitions," makes a significant advancement in number theory

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... animation software that I used a lot in high school), I have spent a lot of ... friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... playing in the background had turned into five simple letters and a two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company which was supposed to mail my replacement charger got a Brazillion

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this ... 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

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

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to ... my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  over the past term. In addition to writing a Theme and Variations in the ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  life in general to be happy with your work, and MIT is a place where this ... consider Stanford a little bit more seriously so they could visit me in a ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... return to MIT. I'm living in Baker this summer, in a room with really poor ... thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• 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 / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... who used to be in our shoes so many years ago!  I just kept thinking how ... F. '31 to play in the dirt, and everyone had a great time! A bunch

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  screen illuminated three sheets of paper covered in a few inked drawings ... left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... in a puffy jacket minding her own business. Anyway, I was in high

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the ... or however long it takes to do as many repetitions of "A Whole New ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... . Looked like we were going to be in for quite a bit colder than the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to ... independence, responsibility, and skill needed to thrive in a place as fast ... of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  spines will tend to be more active. In a hand-waving way, spine density and ... lab uses rat hippocampal neurons -- in a dish in culture, while there ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ;    You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you ... in to decisions.mit.edu.   Between Early and Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to ... in a few myself, I went from being Anika she/her/hers, to Aniaih she ... ! Visitors were encouraged to take a lady finger (a type of biscuit), dip it in

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016