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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... 's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... plasmid formation to the accessory optic system to gender roles in the ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... job??? The latter of which actively have a hard deadline??? But then ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  posted... yikes"]After **quite** the hiatus,[/annotation] it would probably ... keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to ... would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and ... ignored problems have piled up like the laundry that I keep washing but not folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  parents. They woke up immediately, trailing after me as I leaned over the ... me that the part he hated most about throwing up when he was little was the emptiness that he felt afterwards. How his stomach would go from

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  ) Easily-Googleable questions make me grumpy. Ex: "what is the application deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the ... go into the "respond later" or "respond much later" pile. 3) For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... o_o, but it was also cool looking back at that blog showing the ... including the summer and my life away from MIT. I almost gave up twice, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great ... felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the college admissions process, sandwiched between two 20 minute Q&A sessions. The ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the ... at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious moments forever preserved from the exact second they happened. So if you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log the amount they read over the summer, where each booklet completed would

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star ... hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some ... made it, that mean I made it Everything I had was for the team, I

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Tonight, mechanical engineering seniors will showcase the culmination ... Kayode D. '27, who are posting their live reactions to the whole event. P.S. I'm on Team Yellow! On the team, [annotation note='Earlier this

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the ... that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need ... short enough to swing from my grasp without scraping the ground. That one

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024