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• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to college (MIT, clearly), your teachers have given up on trying to make you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the ... will be hard to choose. We have begun selection committee meetings. Thus, it is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short study break, and... This entry is going to be really spontaneous, since ... class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an undergraduate, she made sure to take time to explore our campus and enjoy the ... 5 chiral centers and takes about 2 weeks to produce at only about a 50

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  To accompany today's entry about MIT summer programs, here is a ... juniors to consider. All of the below are national/international, selective ... Introduction to Engineering & Science (MITES) Research Internship Program in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they allow me to take photographs. I should ask my classmates sign photo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  Columbus Zoo. I managed to make my annual trip to the zoo last summer, but ... withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and sly, I managed to both pick the restaurant (California Pizza Kitchen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  would say something like “I’d also come to learn that the world was white ... believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel—to ... Ethiopia to the United States a few years before I was born, so their entire

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat ... watching, you also may remember that I got asked to prom. What??) If you ... really wants to talk more about this, but also knows that it would be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  historical challenge. Anyone from around the world can join to listen. The description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for ... transnationally and across discipline at how plagues and pandemics have made an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  MIT hacking culture. (If the term sounds unfamiliar, make sure to check ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  's like San Francisco, but not as cold--not to mention more hipster and ... . Since I could probably talk for far too long about how great Seattle is ... , from buildings under construction to a Ferris wheel on the pier. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video ... '05 Special thanks to: Rachel Fong '12 and the East Campus i3 Team

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  weekend, I went to Alpha Chi Omega (AXO)'s Lip Sync -- their annual ... COMPETITION! The emcees asked the audience for "rubix cube people" to unscramble ... quite sure how "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas qualified. A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... Mississippi. Among all the Amtrak trains I’ve experienced, three stand out to ... ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are encouraged to submit their scores with the understanding that they [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other ... have been written before by bloggers of yore, and I encourage you to read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020