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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  unorthodox methods. They are often motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real ... the lab to ask us questions and get to know us. 2.004- Dynamics and ... go by so quickly! Everyone who completes the class qualifies to go on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the ... reached out to many people at MIT to get advice--from Professor Hazel Sive

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  , and we had to get back to work, so we went back inside and psetted until ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... ’ve been getting occasional “it MiGhT snow… mAyBe” messages from the cryptic

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  ways at MIT where you can get help if you want to. Office hours (an hour ... problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours ... makes people less willing to help each other get better marks. At MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  try to have completed your interview by December 10th if possible. You ... who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  try to justify my ignorance by saying that I'm not really that dumb, he ... trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... lots of burgers around). I haven’t tried any yet but I’ll be sure to get ... walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what ... met lots of people during Orientation, but I didn't really get to know ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  our GRT told him how to talk to the counseling deans so he could get his ... prospective GRT candidates, and I think we get to interview all of them this ... that the fact that I go to MIT leads to almost immediate stereotyping by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  ://www.mit.edu/~yourusername. A username can also get you an MIT certificate, giving you access to ... , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... can get to having an all-encompassing definition of the basic unit of ... biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  new communities that you love, to fill the holes left by the ones you ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... students to get through it.  … They made me feel like everything was going to ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited ... getting something right is hard.  It's not enough just to care about excellence.  You need to care deeply about getting something right and also

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... topic. Then I went home, presumably to get some sleep but actually to grab ... guys who didn't live in the dorm but nevertheless wanted to get to know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  to get out of my room other than just getting lunch and getting tested ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  my apartment and introduced myself to people that lived close by. And ... in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... felt repetitive. I keep track of what I’m supposed to do by memorizing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... with this summer, but I do feel like I am starting to get a better hold ... books to practice, I spend a lot of time getting back into Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to ... lacked the inspiration—and the activation energy—to get started. And now ... hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020