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• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... astrophysics to fusion to now doing research in computer vision for ecology. If ... mentoring for Project Manus. So far, I’ve traveled to five countries through

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  instruction about assays to use to discern these facts for yourself. A large ... expression is sufficient for programmed cell death to occur in cells of the ... indeed sufficient for PCD to occur. (b, 6 pts) You find that C. elegans

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  knowledge to the test and lay up a carbon fiber notebook for myself with the ... available to members. And upperclassmen and RT alums are great resources who ... for scale![/caption] I was extremely hesitant to go because I felt like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  's always someone to hang out with, always someone available to work next to ... for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of ... cities, and is the best way for many to commute to work or school. My peers ... for research for my Gaelic Folklore final. One of these was available as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  disappeared for 11 years, long enough for most readers to assume that, like most ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Caltech, Bring IT on Just some harmless rivalry...

  

  From the Caltech homepage: Caltech Pranked by MIT Today MIT pulled one over on Caltech today. MIT students stole a 130-year-old, 1.7-ton cannon that has been on the Caltech campus since 1972. It now sits in a

  • by Bryan
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  love to take them, but it's just not an option for me and I feel as ... 's possible for me to take at my school (honors, accelerated, etc.) but thats no ... ." My response:  The only *really* strict requirement for coming to MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  you can't say for sure. So if you didn't get caught, there's nothing to ... (at least for another week) and I happen to know that MIT and others ... arrive to MIT ready for a full sip of the firehose. If anything, they need

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of ... and far between, if they exist at all. Where they have to advocate for ... ’s about learning to maximize the resources available like joining 4-H or FFA

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  shipped to Korea. It was fun because I loved the show, but it was not at all creatively engaging for me. So I’m like “ah, man I don’t know what to do.” Then ... sending to Korea—the same way we did for The Simpsons, but it’s a little

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  kinds of nanowires available to us, but there are very few tools to ... ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  do, and *then* find someone to pay you for it." -Gerry Sussman Well ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  biotech companies to MIT campus (possibly for recruiting reasons or close ... at one of the Harvard libraries (and apparently they’re available to a ... gems, Harvard-speak for easy and fun classes. I was able to find some

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2013! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  positions, but the opportunities for fun work are always available. I adore ... .02 Multivariable Calculus, worked. I looked forward to doing the homeworks for it ... to consider myself lucky, for deadlines are continuous (and safe

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  while waiting for gels to run or blots to transfer :P) But yeah. I want ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half ... weeks from now!) so I've been putting in a ton of extra work into lab to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  tons of social people who love to party, etc. They were all really nice and i'm sure that they have more than enough fun to compensate for ... never expect to find there. For example, while hanging out with some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  other early new design feature that I selected was for this to be our ... Boston, and as a result I didn’t have a ton of room in my living space to ... project’s concept to the various MIT stakeholders who would evaluate it for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026