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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  review for those seniors who are struggling with the concept in the 7.01x ... and was inundated with opportunities to hear from celebrities in science ... molecule with a function." How could a computer know if an RNA has a function

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  later. This fort--now a park filled with fluffy dogs--is the last ... mainland with one tenuous spar of rock. During the 19th century, Boston ... started out with a typical walk to the grocery store, and instead I stumbled

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  going back to campus so I don’t have to walk with groceries. Car ... ’re getting groceries with friends. Online You can order groceries online using ... , and I usually order with my friends to use up the bulk items. I hope

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  —I’m majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry and have spent the last four ... . It was an intimidating environment with 20+ professors from the ... passions and still be able to pursue both. My experience with the humanities

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  process, like anything else. You get up. You move on with your life. You ... with my family, and I longboarded along the Platte River, and the weather ... run around and play. I came back with a fiery analytical vigor. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10 ... clouded with pain. What. Body sculpt? As in, trying to make your body look ... , as people settled with just lifting their arms; that was tiring enough

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  me. My freshman spring, I was in a seminar with TWO OTHER STUDENTS, and ... the speed and with eight billion times the intensity. His office hours ... some point. Hi Eric! Every J-Lab pair starts out with the same three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  touch with something you love and something you’ve dedicated time ... surprisingly really good, he spends a lot of his time practicing with the other ... ’s just a bunch of students having fun. In both cases, they came to MIT with

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  ): "Earlier this summer a had the opportunity to travel to Israel with 21 other ... . Apartment sharing with other interns or staying with family in the area are

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  found myself, along with 15 groggy teammates and five coaches, at Logan ... 's team qualified with a decisive victory. It was less than a week later we ... around Iowa and put up with our nonsense all weekend, but they worked

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Wii with your hard-earned cash and then taking the Wii and eating it ... , adverbially finished my first semester at MIT. It started, like many days, with ... tasted like ice cubes stuffed with hemp, but- look, a picture! Muffins

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy ... pasta for Random Hall's dinner with Stu Schmill, MIT's Dean of Admissions ... ! Here's the deal: I'm making dessert for Random on Dec. 18th. Comment with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  interview with Eric Lander last year. The worst they can do is say no, and ... 's not. But it's still worth learning, or at least playing around with. Of ... 's studying, hanging with your friends, or just being by yourself and thinking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  questions, chat with bloggers, chat with each other, and learn more about MIT ... , tell people that you disagree with what I say. Explain why things may be

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  results or fail in their objectivity. With some exception, of course, grades ... bent on learning nothing. Doing this with your foundational classes in ... live with. Of course, more doesn't always mean better. For some subjects

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... had assumed it to be—harder to come up with plot, easier to invent

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  , and oil droplets, heavy with visions of unborn culinary chimeras. The ... raw (the form occurring in nature), French fry (degenerate state with ... Athens have long warned that the path to self-destruction begins with fried

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  extensive collection of movies. I've decided to replace Veronica Mars with ... does idiotic things to ruin her relationship with her dad in exchange for ... should be fun. No worries, once I catch up with Lost I'll have plenty of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  's Battle of the Bands at 8pm Saturday, with special guests Ben & Marilee ... :30pm. Whether or not you agree with his politics, he's clearly one of the ... your March mailing with the other CPW materials, and is also available on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  '10 is playing Fish Man; Tiff Chu '10 is playing Lady With Baby ... somewhere you don't even know with all the hope in the world that somebody ... brush with MIT ends here or is just barely beginning.

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007