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  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about ... "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the ... , and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  last for maybe one post after this one. But, hey - a guy can dream, right? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... Tower A stock shot of a ballroom, all dolled up Here are the 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... against Brazil. I had a good cry about it and vowed that I would never

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... ), so getting a $40 per month cell phone plan isn't as staggeringly costly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... campus. Student collaboration MIT also has a strong culture of student
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... fellowships, with families at home and a mindset of just getting through the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great ... declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent ... up. A woman across the aisle from me DID throw up: whether from terror ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... lecture is thermo & kinetics (5.60). This's actually a really interesting

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... examine Mills first. Mills is a student who is defined by the world in which

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant ... mathematical maturity, he often gives off the dignified vibes of a tweedy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to meet a lot of extraordinarily cool people, like Kat '10. She's got very good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  this year (aside from Mystery Hunt), I took a couple breaks from reading ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and community members take classes on such silly but important topics as Giving a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005