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

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were ... . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much

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

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes ... way or form, I’ve been here before.” Looking back at it all, I think ... HIV/AIDs at its core, the course took us to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... am a course 20 (biological engineering), and I am in my 3rd year at MIT ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  basic decision as Sam: whether to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do ... unsettled. Will they like 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather ... at either. The problem, for Sam, was not finding the right answer: the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  good. I look back on my fall classes and sometimes shudder at how little ... new paths, allowed me to marvel at the complexity of modern science ... , but I think I really did mean it at the time.] My favorite learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  military vessel stationed in Boston Harbor (although its runs at this point ... bike and using the GPS on your phone at the same time is not an effective ... Boston right at sunset showed me a view of the city I had never seen before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  you, huh? Well, here's the latest model if you want to look at it ... 'll see that this is a place of heartbreaking defeats -- but at the same ... will be those that happen at three in the morning. That reminds me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  about how the ink can start to peel away from the edges at every rip. The ... ’t concentrate at the museum; I felt hollow and unreal. My legs moved before I ... medical community, feeling both terrified at my own disconnect and at the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... relaxing at home. There really are no bounds to what you decide to do ... real science true method of relaxation (source: none). At the bottom of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  to cross MIT campus (especially at night) without encountering at least ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... the Infinite at any time. We have adult bunnies and baby bunnies, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  look at things like that but we're not strict about it. So, if a ... would like to, you can email mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu and the documents ... more than a page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last ... gigabits per second on its own, so yeah, you could say that we at MIT have ... Jeff Schiller. Jeff's been at MIT for a long time, and been network

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  happen, and it happens very quickly. So I'm here at MIT, taking actual ... much time at all at EC - I found myself again and again at Senior House. Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... that has since extended to maybe three) more years at the Institvte. If ... , Brazil and Argentina. If you look back at my blogging archives, you’ll see

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... or driving across the country or exploring caves. Yet I was here, at ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  look at things like that but we're not strict about it. So, if a ... , you can email mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu and the documents will be added ... page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-late April with an

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  weekdays. Sure, Monday is a pain. Tuesday is kind of meh. Wednesday at least ... call me Krystal “Antelope Legs” Lai. Well, at least they should. While ... salad that she bought at Thaitation for dinner. The puniness just blows me

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try ... vertigo returned today. I'm at the Conference of Research Experiences for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  library. At 2:50pm, Carl and his grandma arrived (I invited them.) At 3pm ... grandma) explaining and defending my work and occasionally glancing at my ... leave -- we could start driving at NIGHT, make it a few hours, sleep, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  two weeks ago, at a McCormick observatory public night. McCormick's 26 ... of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector ... approached him and said I wanted to give talks and volunteer at the open nights

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013