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  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for the first time! Established in 1872, it's the oldest public arboretum in ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... (gasp!) and spent the better part of a year not always understanding what ... of the world). Reading Anthony's blog, you might guess that I want to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  are at the beginning of Easter term so there’s panic over the last ... studying over the holidays business? Well, for the first week or so I was ... ;m sitting at home while writing this. Most of the other people on the

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  exciting~ This is my second time blagging from abroad, the first being ... Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... , China, and Canada many times, and Italy once, this is the first time that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  Facebook page, you've heard of the page "I Fucking Love Science." IFLS has ... looked around the crowd, and my hand went up first. He made eye contact and ... SAGAN MADE MISTAKES???) Neil: "but he was the first [to do highly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the ... that really disappointed me about the ring - its complete lack of ... , when the point of having all these quirky symbols is to defy tradition

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  explorations of the first two volumes, maintaining its emphasis on methods of ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  ... [carousel image1="71474" image2="71475" /] the first pages of the yellow ... a whole pot of oatmeal on the sidewalk, Talking to a biker and a rec ... 't think to take pictures of, to record the little moments that arise

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  coming. I pulled my first real all-nighter – ever – the day of the final ... studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... ’s the inside via webcam shots… Someone decided to put all the pages from

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  at least. But woe is this Texan on the first day of snow...which could ... 're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  didn't just snap a picture of the gel itself. First, I did that in the ... purple color, is an indicator that tracks the progress of your gel ... were some...issues in loading the first couple of samples. It's hard to

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

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  exploded in the oven. Luckily, we took a page from the book of "lifestylist ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... Here For The Food" and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  Cafe got their invites the first week of January, you know that you ... [/annotation] to the field. I am not someone who dreamt of being a scientist as a ... think I liked science that much; it was just the area of the pool that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  as old friends. The first category includes Shankar's Principles of ... “cosmic order.” On the top of page 105 I wrote “what is the ultimate goal of ... of the main characters in First Light is Jim Gunn. Preston describes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  of what was attractive about MIT. MIT was the first place I've ever ... Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... of dedicated letter of sorts to the prefrosh since I've had a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  . For the first two weeks of my sophomore year, the machines and the app ... )"]part of the building with no elevator.[/annotation] It wasn't a huge deal ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... him during our first lecture. He was trying to demonstrate the effects

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  first trick: Experiment #1: Testing the acceleration of a mountain bike ... intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don ... whole "point mass" approximation of the pendulum equation Results: Eh

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... ) and 20.310 Biomechanics (the other three pages). For each exam in 20 ... between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015