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  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  wizard?" - Have you ever had a conversation with a child? If you haven ... movies and games to rooms, but more than anything I love playing with the ... (as babies do) with my pinky in a vice grip - while being fed through a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post ... Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... ... ... the joys of making ice cream with liquid nitrogen ... ... and MIT

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  come up with my Elizabeth's Totally Objective Song Summerness Equation ... excruciating minutes coming up with this equation. It also explains why, despite ... should not be confused with Rs (can't do subscripts, sorry), which refers

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  contact with someone on the phone…we have a phone number. While we tend to ... can connect with numbers. Even on a given street, we are unique in our ... numbers unique to us. The same way the government ID’s us with a social

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  !). The office will reopen on Monday, January 3rd. However, with the RA ... understanding of and flexible with late documents from schools than with late ... send, as it helps with filing (but documents without the cover sheet will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and ... and say, “Man it sucks to have to do this paperwork or to deal with this administration or to deal with blah blah but I am damn lucky to being doing what I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  GEL 2-Year students). The assessors fill out a "blue card" with feedback ... requires the "little by little" argument, where I say that with each yellow ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  while I'm there and put up with my intense but baffling love of ... with camp gear and two more friends and set out for the great outdoors ... , went running, and struggled to build a fire for breakfast with very wet

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... , was representing the Granite State Regional there - I did work with ... )Scholarship Row - a college fair with dozens of schools, including MIT, represented

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  reading my comparatively-dry prose: imagine someone saying it with a gangsta ... unless there's a predicted payoff of at least $10, with exceptions for ... have bought 1/15th of the class textbook with that fortune! Anyway, back

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  maliciously deceptive with our question. You can write about ANYTHING that you ... has only 35 people. With that said, does my class rank really matter? A ... recommendation, etc.). To be very honest with you, the quantitative factors are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  of finalists is one of our strongest classes ever, with more than half ... at FCHS with a grade point average above 4.0. Craighead was vice ... Competition for Academic Excellence League (SCAEL) with another senior, Johnver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... exhibit, half playful laboratory- the walls are lined with mini interactive ... to the Edgerton Center for help with independent projects for which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best ... organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... student activities, or spent less time with friends, in the spring. It

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  engineers — socialise with strangers without the help of alcohol? I had ... ’t filled with teetotal, bored young people. It's full of young people who ... disappointed to celebrate my 18th birthday last September with cake and soda. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  scientist and an engaging lecturer, sprays dozing students with water from a ... and tiredness finally catch up with me. Nap, embarrassingly, because the ... out/do some work with friends. Midnight - 2am Work closing shift at

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... to talk with MIT Spanish literature/culture professors. • Festival de ... with a passion, and I speak Spanish at home. Though I can’t say I truly

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... math tests. Basically, find a board room with a wall-sized white board

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  come get coffee with me." Ben: *getting up to leave* "Aw, Tina put you up ... Caroline and Tina as they stealthily knocked on 3-107 with their bags of ... instead I just dashed into Ben's office to help Caroline and Tina with the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  semester senior year will rear its head shortly, bringing with it stress-relief and (hopefully) a mailbox stuffed with acceptance letters. These letters ... , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007