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

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... “aquaporins pump water” without ever listing anything about the rate at which ... ’s another paper that gives me one (1) rate for APQ1 but it disagrees with the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note="At ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... dumplings” and “trash” and I end up using a pinyin keyboard and Google Images

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

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at other schools she's had experience with (she was at Yale for 20ish years ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... Tok describing the sluttiness of sweaters for my friend Julian '23 Cami: This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing the standard-issue bookshelf when i moved in, but it did for some reason

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  's name for its EECS department) lets students work at companies and use ... the rest. It came from someone who had interned at Google this past ... , because everyone's so smart? At Google, I felt retarded! My guess is that

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ’s not much for me to say about these things; not enough, at least.   i ... wonder what i’m doing for dinner...i don’t have much food at home and don ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the ... Italian word that I directed at waitstaff, cashiers, and train operators ... total confidence or none at all, they’d switch to English immediately and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt ... 've ever taken at MIT save for 6.034, internships were something I could ... a long time for me to realize that jobs are jobs at the end of the day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  hoping to make an update for my work in April at the end of the week ... in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... applications at Google, and in that role, had regular dealings with Steve. It was ... looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I'm not happy with the icon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  i'm shocked at how long the list seems. i'm thankful for my manager ... , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... , so we’re doing the long-distance thing for a few years while he Googles ... wearing my brass rat flipped upside down for just over eight years now

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... interview somebody for a news story, we have to look at the entire situation ... for writing each of my stories. That’s the beauty of many classes at MIT

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... , March 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School and Sunday, March 6th at Harvard ... a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  , when I make mistakes occur at lab, I mourn for about ten minutes, then ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  ? Don’t ask for the definition of a word; just smile, nod, and Google it ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not ... you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US ... "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... INVADERS!" they exclaimed. The place was a bit too remote for me – its ... – but I suppose it’s passable for a just a few days. Thank God there was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010