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  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  at MIT is my friend Julie Legault. Julie is an artist, designer, and biohacker from Montreal. Before she came to MIT, she built wearable costumes ... and continuous culturing." Here is the abstract from her thesis: With

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and ... particular order, Don't spend too much time with your host! CPW is not "meet this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three ... most fun: Denial. Keep in mind that this is just a sampling. I slept a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  't think that being like me -- like people I know at MIT -- is the only way ... setting; at the same time, I don't know how much chaos is too much chaos ... policies look like, and I feel like both my high school and MIT did a decent

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  re-used the meat for the next day's meal as well: Yum. music MIT is ... ,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... blog post, here is a collection of "activities" from this IAP, as told by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  things about MIT so far is that you can show up to pretty much any event or ... in New Haven :0 Yale is very pretty, although very different from MIT ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Pretoria’s exchange program with MIT, which is how I came to meet him (a ... something sustainable. Even after MIT and realizing the only thing to fear is ... I put up a blog post on MIT Admissions was about one year ago. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  MIT. there are some key differences in academics between MIT and here ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of ... :00 PM: It's not MIT time yet, but the professor is asking how people

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it is studying, is that it's the opposite of the kind of learning that MIT ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a ... wondering - "is someone going to write a blog post about September 11th today ... 't is because they might think it's outside of the scope of an admissions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  , how collaborative is MIT? Do most people do psets w/ others[?]" That's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... what i did is fair. i'm just a hs kid and don't know about mit, so maybe

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  the MIT education is the GIRs (our core curriculum), atop which you ... . However, an MIT convention that spans the two is the HASS concentration, a ... , research, and infrastructure across MIT's five schools, there is a strong

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... Science. I’m glad I’ve learned so many things, and I’m glad MIT gave us all ... went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to female bathrooms on MIT campus) MIT female: Also, BUILDING THREE. Average ... WOMEN'S bathrooms: ZERO POINT TWO FIVE!!! MIT male: Uh...how did you get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26 ... other universities around the country, including MIT, which hosts the ... represent. The latke, essentially a potato pancake, is traditionally eaten

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  This is what MIT felt like when I first arrived: Sunny, warm, people ... What To Bring To MIT Next Fall? If you're planning on having a bike, make ... MIT ID. Haven't seen it since before CPW. I'm going to assume my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  [by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11] Hello there MIT hopefuls and ... LTI is on. LTI strives to instill in our students the four cornerstones ... ;> Thanks to many MIT students and support from MIT administrators, LTI has

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008