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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  defined by those frogs. I spent hours every week watching them eat and swim

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  with me about grad school for an hour. When we were chatting at the AAS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  my one-hour Introduction to Pulsars class. I ask who thinks he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  restarted the folds. About half an hour later, my supervisor walked into the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  yellow Johnson's baby shampoo bottles. I spent hours decorating that label

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  difference. He didn't seem to mind at all that we were spending an hour on one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  .) During work hours, uniforms are standard wear for school children

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  office hours. If I didn't have trouble with the homework, I could discuss

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -- so much so that he has spent two to three hours on homework five nights

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  slowly over two-hour, three-fork dinners in French restaurants with napkins

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  hours later, as I stood quagmired on a dingy Chinatown sidewalk in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  always involved hour drives to Portland, free pitchers of water, free pens

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to do a good job and impress everyone. I worked 12 hours a day and was

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fraternity, and the brothers of my fraternity met for nearly five hours. Still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  I should be sleeping right now. I should be tired. I got less than five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , Coffeeeeeeeeee" and 30-hour train rides than I care to remember. I have to say, the

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008