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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  understand how we got to be human. Genomics is a new and quickly evolving field ... -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  products ranging from Google beanies to Google Homes (the device not an actual Google house) to anyone willing to wait two hours in the line (not ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  the exam room, expecting to breeze through the test. However, I quickly ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even planning each meal down to the ingredient – until one big question remained

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... Sciences; used to refer to any non-technical class. "I'm taking .006, 18

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  attending. That escalated quickly, so let me restate it: I stopped going to ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ... affordable and you don't need a car. If you want to stay closer to MIT, though ... took one of those very quick trips this past weekend when my friend and I

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation, but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... like week 3 to share some neat things I learned this semester and share

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  quick Google Search before asking questions that can be easily answered ... Admissions Counselor at MIT - providing information sessions to on ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day-to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  decided to stick to the east coast. After googling things like “safest ... market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... scarier without friends. It can simply feel awkward fumbling to navigate

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  to get a job at Google,' " Fitzgerald says. It's academic Located ... . Winston links to. Enjoy! Always Moving Forward by Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  a long day, the walk back is quick. Returning, I wanted to attempt ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  to keep an enjoy, but in COVID times, we had to make do with Google ... with a whenisgood.net form to set up my group interview. My interview ... "Why do you want to be apart of CodeIt?" and other things. For the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  popeyes and quickly’s with my mom, who told me to be cautious about ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... my return to MIT after taking leave this past fall. I’ve been thinking about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  are scrounging through weeks of your google calendar trying to figure ... Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  then (really quickly) change its orientation to horizontal, so that it ... Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end

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

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and ... bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... . Well, I started to, but every post inevitably ended with a positive ... transformative experience? Yes. Did I grow up? Yes. But it was too quick. I wasn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022