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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I don't write this entry now, when I have so much time on my hands, this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  jerk all the time. I mean, not all the time. Today I was looking at an ... ? Because you look so much older." When I was studying reaction kinetics on my ... ever entry on MITblogs without posting a picture of myself, didn't you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my ... 's sake (less individual time on machines, more prefabrication on the part of the staff, less time-consuming work on the students' part). First

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim ... of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really ... on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  seeing happening on campus as a result of it. As we already know, nearly ... had dramatic results, on families, communities, finances, and more. I ... ’t write about that here. You can read more perspectives on Ukrainian

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with ... known as ECs) to help me out at these meetings. After San Jose, I headed ... already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the ... rising star in economics since her doctoral dissertation- on a new way to analyze how people respond to rising uncertainty- creating a stir on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance-necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not ... money. If you drop any later the class will show up on your transcript as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  On Tuesday, January 27th, Snowstorm Juno hit. Classes were cancelled ... Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard coverage on the MIT ... characterized by strong winds. Try using that word in a sentence today, it's fun

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have ... research, and enjoying this view from my lab on a daily basis: Campus ... ). My research is on the microbiome of the female genital tract, and my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on studying for finals, I cooked dinner instead today. =p (it didn't really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that ... fax machine today, so they're prepared for the new documents! If we are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... trash into treasure a reality. On-campus dining locations generate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're especially keen on. Take today as an example: a director took an hour and a ... made. :-P On an unrelated note, they've got an old Xerox workstation and ... lunch, all on my first day) to ask about something I'm working on, and we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  everyone doing? Not too stressed out, I hope? While you're working on finishing the application, we're working on filing the applications. Today ... everything has your name and birthdate on it, etc. Then, each application piece

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT Campus and General Institute Requirements and MIT's Influence on the World ... motivated professors on campus and that sometimes he sticks around in his lab

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  're going live on 12/17 at 12:17? No. What they have to with is this: history ... There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the comments on my post announcing the 12/17 12:17 EA decision release

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... and 6PM. So we had planned on leaving at 4PM to play it safe. So before ... things on campus but I ended up escaping for one day to go on a day trip to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025