Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse. In these images you can see ruby-colored solar prominences, planet-sized loops of plasma hanging off the sun. You can also see Bailey’s Beads right ... ’s surface. Truly a magical experience that you have to see in person. (Minor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that ... Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for which they can care like you would a pet. Amino is developed using ... using biology. To get you started, Amino ships with Amino Glow App - your own ready-to-engineer living nightlight.   You can learn more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  . How? S.I. prefixes. So if you're kinda excited about something, you can go ahead and say you're kilo-excited. Exam tomorrow that you haven ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  made fond memories at MIT. However, it can feel disappointing to not get ... “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I ... privacy with my idiotic laughter. Mind you, the Harvard/MIT Coop sells

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  that having a broken foot doesn't mean you have to lie in bed all day. You can... ...ride an electric trolley around Walmart... I've always ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... , where I got the first stamp on my brand new passport! Afterwards, we ... from katara cultural village[/caption] At night, we booked a tour where

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  these events were all stepping stones to an inevitable destiny where I would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works ... , people would ask, Rona, why did you choose MIT if you're interested in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  you sprightly prefrosh came rushing into MIT for the one and only Campus ... .   (You'd be surprised how many people want to lick our airplane. It's pretty sexy.) What, you might ask, is DBF? DBF is exactly what its name

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about ... 's not going to college.' I thought 'You have got to be kidding me.'" No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  also felt that "click" with MIT. You really get the sense that something ... levels. Coming from a conservative, 90+% white town where diversity meant "Are you Catholic or are you Methodist?", a school with no majority race

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... experiences you get: living with roommates, handling your daily shit in a ... remember the singing to Coco scene, you can probably relate. That scene is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  her precedent I have some time yet. Let's see if I can get you up to speed on what's been going on in my life lately. The last you really ... that I haven't blogged in "forever." (The earlier back you look, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  We then played Anime Music Quiz, an incredible game where you guess ... involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to ... Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ; ***   “Even if you can’t make it perfect, you can make it better ... everything in between.   In Barbie, it’s unknown where the Kens go when ... every assignment, but from arriving in a new environment where suddenly

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win ... As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  third separate little joy of cleaning! (If you can't relate, I understand ... excellent time doing the things we can never find time to do during the ... medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Science department, and the little dome barely visible behind it. Before you ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... was doing two UROPs simultaneously when I blogged about him; you won

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  trip because I’ll get to meet lots of you in the process. I know I ... Lobdell also took some great pictures that night, but I can't share them ... of you on the road as well as old friends who were at the conference

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008