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• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  little freshman psetting group) are stuck on a problem. Options? (1) Keep ... up until 3 or 4am on a regular basis; you check, and sure enough, the light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... to refrain from the obvious commentary on the drive through Iowa-I come ... there. Except to say that the radio station we were listening to on our

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade ... , working on an application that eventually quadrupled the sampling rate for ... first ripples. Outside of the McDonald's on Massachusetts Avenue stood

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  was planning on doing today. She told me, 'My Physics pset ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... , Political Science "Three Perspectives on China's Rise: Threat, Opportunity, or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than ... us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of ... sign on, you won't regret the journey :D THURSDAY, 9.30-midnight

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  for this week was to think back on our lives, pick out a memory that ... , mustard-yellow couches, perfect for me to jump on when I got tired of my ... four feet shorter than the tallest branch on the plum tree, even with the

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

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  RETRIEVER SITTING ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASSROOM 3) HOLY CRAP I AM TOTALLY ... postdoc at the Whitehead Institute, 7.342 assigns two papers a week on some ... -linked traits and sex-specific areas on the X chromosome. it's a super small group

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  magazine and starts ranting and bashing on all the non-Helvetica typefaces ... viewed on Thursday or Friday nights. A typically-MIT* trajectory of ... Perseids meteor shower, like a celestial garbage truck stopping by Earth on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... 17th. Yes, that means that while you’re all on campus not sleeping and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  tell, I tripped over myself before sliding down six steps on my right ... combination of awesome scheduling skillz and sheer luck on my part, this semester I have no classes on Fridays and a total of one midterm and one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... yet. Then it was 6:30. It had just begun to dawn on us that we were

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  , 2008 Right after school ended, I hopped on a plane and embarked again on ... ; read: the first row of each economy "section" on the airplane. so much ... Aborigines. I really realized that on a very basic level, it's not so much that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  is easy. Generally, you just sign on to the MIT MUN mailing list, and ... "sophomore"! Although I prided myself on not caving into the pressure of ... Elective Credit for extra AP exams that are on this list, so you need 4 extra

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to ... go out to the suburbs for that) and wandering on sidewalks for hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which ... . She began working on two projects: studying how neurons communicate with ... mechanisms which control anxiety. To do this, she performs brain surgery on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... attention when it was introduced in 2005. It was featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, Jay Leno, and even on Jeopardy. What is Clocky

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Square on Saturday night and promptly argued over where we were having ... to eat. We ended up deciding on Bartley's as we walked past it - hey ... MIT") alike. I set my sights on the ultimate heart attack: The Viagra

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... essay should I just submit it on paper? Avril said: elizabeth - The MIT ... on paper. Um...I have never heard of such a thing. 505 words is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The phrase "throw another shrimp on the barbie" was ... on what I've been seeing on the e-mail list, we've already got requests ... pianos in my dorm and on campus--sometimes in the midst of working on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... remember to leave Adam a shopping list, so he could go to the store on his ... synaptic cleft and bind to receptors on the outside of the postsynaptic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006