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  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... ) Les Cline and Larry Horowitz picked me up at my hotel in mid-town at 7

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... to play with. At that time, I felt there were only these two types, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... you may have at MIT that involve hacks. And so with that, a quick primer

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... , rather than MIT directly. It's almost like that with being Premed at MIT. II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar detection/navigation (perfected at MIT durign WWII) Texas Instruments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer ... read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7.02, my professor was watching and she said, “Wow, you’re really good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the ...  MPhil in engineering (as well as an MASt in applied mathematics) at Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018