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  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Last term, students hosted a Chinese New Year gala on a scale that we ... foundation. Ask any young Cantabridgian to expound on collagen, but s/he may not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  day, he found a toilet on the street a block away from his house. So we decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with ... , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab ... link to the new building. Perhaps I will take some later this week

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... YEARS to land on a writing process that clicked with me. Honestly, I ... great. It’s nice and cool outside, so you go to sit on the front porch

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ; Coming from New York, I had always been used to having a great music scene ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... taking a day off and going to one of Boston’s many concerts, or even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... software acts like a virtual road map for moving information on the streets ... if I ever tried to touch anything more than an off/on switch I would be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a ... took me almost a month to get my hands on a desk; thanks to my initial ... At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... and easy to use, so it cuts down significantly on suturing time and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was nice to see folks I met last summer on campus (you know who you are), or ... birthday to Kelly. We took a group photo (see below). We chatted some more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to ... metapuzzle is a puzzle based on combining the answers to other puzzles.) This ... to read the alt-text on the images; it provides a significant but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  -American status, but don't want to seem like a braggart? Come write it on our ... observe and absorb my and your experiences and fun to compile a project that ... REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  's sense of self-worth clipped to the quick. So for those who are feeling a ... A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  a postscript to Nehalita -- I hear you on the forcible DOFMH. We had ... going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are ... I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was ... traffic cone was deemed suitable. A message, addressed to the Anti ... has officially dumped on MIT, creating about a foot of snow all over

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  controller, using an accelerometer to detect steps on a virtual piano keyboard ... -Saëns' The Swan on it as a nod to the very first lecture, where Ian showed us a ... semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... 's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  on average? How much does a character tend to say? What does this say ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... health. I’m 20 and a junior. I inline skate to everywhere on campus ... - always on my way to somewhere. One day, a friend tells me, “Hanging out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  , which to date has included topics on global warming and a unit on public ... out and find a new place to live. With the help of his well ... coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006