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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in ... ’m doing it in the Lab for Multiscale Regenerative Technology, led by Prof

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... dropped my ice bucket. (Luckily it didn't spill, so I managed to get out of ... Sheng passed the question on to me. And I got to answer it in the middle

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I’ve been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... surprisingly well. If you’ve never used it I can’t promise it’ll make you fluent overnight but it’s a great and free way to start learning (Duolingo please

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  log cabin; unlike Abe, she does not (yet) have a beard. An aspiring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  , 2006: Preference Parties 1:00pm-TBD(4:50pm latest)** Student Center (Does

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  Vegas. I had the chance earlier to go to CES but I passed on it. A group ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... kicking in. It's one thing to follow the news on the Internet and tweet at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... retrospect a bit impolite. It happened a little over three years ago, when I ... to immediately re-open it to e-mail my mom, sprinted outside to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... record a class and do it over. After a frightening semester of flying ... charged gyroscopes inside washing machines with changing magnetic fields. It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  : Early Move-In So it turns out Virginia is a fairly long drive from MIT ... having fun is one of my favorite things about this school because it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  major, but with so many fantastic departments it's hard to go wrong. Still ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... experiments, we're trying to shed some light on how infants become social. In

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  . But I write with a heart that is also full of anguish – because it is ... us treasure and care for that community – and let us work to make it ... today, they have all said it better than I can, so I instead of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... friends back home. This is how our conversation went down:Friend: What ... really... MIT PSETS ARE HARD. Helpful, but HARD. It's absolutely true that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  get over how cool it is that the Pilgrims might have gotten off their ... was kind of sad, because I like sitting in the graveyard -- it makes me ... 're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  insults). But for the most part, it didn’t matter. Crucially, it didn ... familiarity with each other, built over the years by shared routine, made it ... , crystallized into an axiom by years of interaction, was one so blatant it was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much, but it was nice. Two hours later, it looked like there were rain puddles

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech ... -to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... obtain the transportation patterns of individuals, perhaps using it to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019