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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of ... effects" [of phenol/chloroform] and decided to test some on her fingers ... A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  weeks in Beijing, starting on the 29th of May, as an intern for the ... , but sometimes it's nice to sit back and reflect on the good things in ... . The second day on the job, I visited the Port of Albany, where I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like ... of the west parallel of East Campus. This year, Rob Miller '95, our new ... award. Then he gave us candy, and sent us on our way to trick

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to think I wrote some quality pieces. Some of them made their way here ... time has taken on a new form. From the second my head lifts from the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6.0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of ... Student Center where they were showing a livestream of a One-on-One with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... used, and gradually pick up on vocabulary as you make your way through ... energy into their cavity on their way through, corresponding to a specific

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  lies This is the dawning of the rest of our lives On holiday [annotation ... shock. And hearing this song, I realized that the good times of my ... on my bullshit. I can be commanding and confident. Outside of East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  synaptic cleft and bind to receptors on the outside of the postsynaptic ... the activity of the other proteins in some way), some are studying ... away from a new therapy. As long as it's related to the workings of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... us to take control of our time and our lives. Every human on Earth has

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  angle of the “absolute confidence” gesture? I make the final decision on ... environment in which my actors can make discoveries on their own. Finding new ... of rehearsal. Balancing a play on top of everything else has been

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . And what better way than a pictoral odyssey through one of my favorite ... quaint family dinners on Thanksgiving, complete with all manner of ... floor, partly because I live on the fourth story and that's a long way

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  processing. The current status of your application is now shown on your My ... to check up on the status of your application components. The ... /Docufide, you are welcome to submit the documents in that way instead of fax if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... on the second day of the conference.   This is a study hall ... : Impact Investing. Another panel on the second day of the conference

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  would always be sad. then, somewhere along the way, i lost ownership of ... jump out of your nightmare to dawn’s peace, resting on wounds like dew on ... then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it ... . "Wait...you mean...there are things I'm good at?" After 3 years of MIT, I know there are lots of things I'm not good at. Like differential

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... certificates and say a few words about the week. Touching would be a good way to ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  nitrogen ice cream via the Prefrosh Festival on the way back, and I've been back at the registration desk since a little before 10PM. I'll get out of ... sitting on the same registration chair for 14+ hours today. Woot! Mitra has

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate ... not stay on for very long[/caption] [caption id="attachment_84820

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023