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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to keep me occupied. What are your plans for the summer? ... knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this.) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... carving blocks and faces and buildings out of butter. I tried to make a ... from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  grades, I needed to do things in some abstract sense, I needed to make sure ... because I'm passionate about the fields I work in. It makes little sense to ... classes/clubs/psets is real. So, I committed myself to making this summer my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... boxes bought from La Verdes. An hour before my flight was supposed to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but ... free time I did whatever I could to step away from it. Now that it’s all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action ... interesting, but not mandatory. i may or may not go to them based on various ... mind. blue are mandatory, or important events that i'm committing to (i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  ryokan that worked with utmost effort to make the traditional Japanese ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  friends I made. MIT's Global Teaching Labs program allowed me to make a ... circuit to model public power supply using lightbulbs, hand ... to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  up, I realized that I was pretty hungry, so I decided to make cinnamon ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  #springbreak2011 Adventures to keep your taste buds tingling with excitement. Enjoy your meal! Appetizer (consider it the house sampler plate): Friday ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  equivalent to "raising your hand"), students can follow along with the ... Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  smarter than some other ones we've come across, so we could use your support. With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... . Budget cuts around the country may be forcing a lot of colleges to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the ... followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... 'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk ... . Basically 2.001 teaches you the stuff you need to know to figure out that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  understand things makes it easy to understand how the world is so complex ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  loudly. And being back home makes me feel like I have to quiet all of that ... offer me right now. I don't know how to explain this without making a stupid video game metaphor so I'm going to make the stupid video game

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  extraordinary and vibrant, and to make technological inroads that would change the ... , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  . What's your favorite daily ritual? (May 4) I love to drink coffee and ... 't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020