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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... DNA. This situation means that a strain unable to grow on glycerol could ... isolate a haploid strain that can not grow on glycerol and want to know what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... to have more freedom and fewer social pressures. It's a great time to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  technical pursuits. And I've begun to feel a certain yearning to do something ... ) and eventually progressing to full-fledged fiction. I still make time to ... (because I've been practicing piano). And I have a cheesecake to bake for my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to capsaicin (the spicy chemical), making it much more effective than water to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  lunch about once a month to catch up on things, Jake lives down the hall ... faculty that would do anything to make us happy and have the desire to go to ... Saturday, and I hope that I can give you a good idea of what it’s like to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  campus to dispense food and swag to interested students. We even have a ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job ... she's holding a sign that says "ABOUT", try to find her here ;)   

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to ... here. Anyone with a 720 has the potential to do just as well at MIT as ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... that I’ve been able to sing with a large ensemble in person, and it is ... . It is a tedious process, but I cling to every instruction we get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time ... that in a later post. Also, I didn't want my experience this week to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... simply did not have the processing power to react to two arrows at a time ... : but doesn’t having less arrows onscreen make it harder to prepare? like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... might be to brand that person as a racist. Yet PC norms might keep you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  few years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  represents everyone at MIT. but maybe one more perspective can help you make a ... much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... happen because people make them happen. MIT tends to take away the belief

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel ... very bad about this because part of my job as a 6.005 TA is to make sure ... for the sake of seeing cool things, and in part to make such a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  and this is our last chance to make certain that every detail is perfect ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can ... those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the ... goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a ... life not longer feels linear. Suddenly, success seems to mean a lot of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  kit from Clover Food Lab to make cranberry pies. [carousel image1 ... busy people still make the time to have unabashedly geeky fun together. ... Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture ... ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on ... 't had a whole lot of time to be nostalgic, mushy, and all that irritating stuff you don't want to read about (I'm not a philosopher or a romance

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008