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• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an ... to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... -making event with a professional artist. She provided us with a lot of different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  only does he admit us to MIT, he actually really cares about us after we're admitted, as well. His office is almost always open to us (assuming he ... and I decided to repay Ben for all his awesomeness by throwing a mini

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  suggest we walk in a direction neither of us know. Alan knows downtown ... us. “Not unless Chinatown is this thin strip, and that a few streets ... elementary school. The signs warn, no trespassing, which does not stop us from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  ? Crystallography to the rescue! Admittedly, this problem stumped us for a while. We ... directions and 8 relative rotation angles for each direction, giving us 208 ... make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  for us. Computers are simple; they can only find the genes in a string ... 't expect them to do all of our work for us. Some people at MIT are ... was there for. There had been signs up all over campus for a week or two

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or ... -time questions. There are many answers already here on the site -- for example ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to ... and visions for the future are etc. Snively came and joined us and Andy ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  laugh, connect with us. But you don't want to give us reason for pause ... . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least ... colleagues, with your entire application spread out before us - in the context

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How ... you for several reasons. The first (and, sadly, primary reason) is that ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house, the commotion was a welcome change and a nice bend toward normalcy for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  first time on campus, come for a tour of campus! Us tour guides will be ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  Tarkanian to guide us through the casting process. This week's goal for D ... for detailed jewelry work, Mike walked and began to suit up. Telling us ... convention oven and tell us how we were in for a treat. Sticking in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  textually accurate, they actually stole three days of break from us, but it ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... Undergraduate Association rallied hard for faculty to change their semester plans

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a ... anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It ... few inches of snow forecast for tomorrow"]not yet spring here in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel. Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... promise my actual book will be more polished!"]edited for spoilers

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I ... , and there's even an iphone app, which is super useful for tracking all ... snow waiting for buses, BOTH WAYS). The shuttle tracker has been key

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor. Members of the MIT Center for Cancer Research have included five Nobel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006