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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  Cambodia, at a center for children with disabilities. They felt particularly ... , and beautifully-preserved Spanish colonial architecture. For example ... very foreign." After wandering around for a while, we stopped at the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  perfect. Go ahead, take your pick and then read below for the answers ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for ... my key again, but now some people mistake me for a grad student :D

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  cooked up the idea for this adventure. In the following Q ... conversation has been slightly edited for length. How did the idea come about ... sad or painful experience for many of my friends. How terrible! Learning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... still ask for and value grades, test scores, and extracurricular ... like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... for some context. One of the major breakthroughs in biology came when ... terrain makes it harder for larger molecules to travel, so they'll move

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... decision admissions results came out for MIT!! I was deferred back in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for ... of you probably have been playing an instrument for years or participating in art, dance, or theatre for just as long. I mean, you

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... cramped for elbow space. It was extra sweet when we started passing rivers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  less frequently and with more consideration for other people. The fact ... -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those ... (in order): Archaeology (which I signed up for in order to study

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... for the Research Science Institute has been keeping me busy in the ... their countries, he ran off to get supplies for more demos. He took over

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... , we all received certificates and gifts (frisbees! and bags!) for our ... seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week ... for this week was to think back on our lives, pick out a memory that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... lecturer is universally recognized for never sitting down, among other ... quantities of alcohol for the sake of scientific education. Because only at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that that kind of talk, that kind of pressure, is OK especially for ... what pass/no-record will be for you. Personally, I've always believed in ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn ... tube-age? BitTorrent! I surfed around on The PirateBay for a while and ... * copyrighted material for which you do not have explicit permission from the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with ... weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience ... to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  (usually seen as the Latin Cerberus), is a protocol for mutual authentication ... , for example, the sipb.mit.edu cell, run by the SIPB. This allows SIPB to ... servers (remember - they're for the Watchmakers): casio, seiko, and timex

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  , eh? So this was my day: 1:17 AM: Began studying for the 18.03 test ... while mentally getting annoyed at self for being so sleepy even after ... waiting for the elevator. ("phew, I'm not late.") 11:55 AM: Class dismissed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008