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  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  could honestly be put to better use on a lot of things, but at the same ... for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I arrived on Saturday from Florida, where I was spending time with my family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , featuring the infamous Y combinator, on top to make "Lambda: the Ultimate ... unreasonable amounts of time on something is a classic IAP move. In IAP mindset ... from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  . It features a spinning disk that's SO fun to whirl around on. Honestly ... docks and benches to chill on, but if you're more of an active person, the ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on ... of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” “While we may ... insistent on seeking the facts. A place of rigor, ingenuity and real

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo ... ’s photos are magnificent, so be assured--her work will frequently be featured on this blog! Coming from Colorado, the weather itself actually wasn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  two months working for one of the most exciting companies on the planet ... bit and here I was again, on a cold, snowy morning, in the town of ... of the best architecture for office and technical buildings. Together

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  a thick layer of college-related paperwork on top of that unholy ... communities and was featured in Glamour Magazine's 2006 College Women of the ... , and walk past a large chunk of Boston University. On the plus side

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner ... signs will appear across campus, each featuring a smorgasbord of Windows ... Garamond. While on the topic of system fonts, here's two posters I saw in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  to our i3 video, which both of them were featured. I was the cameraman ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in fraternities, I'm basing everything primarily on my fraternity. The two dozen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  , slouched in the corner of Howard Dining Hall with a melancholy look on your ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  posts about this year's Festival. It features summaries of six short talks ... : this post was originally published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here. This year's Festival of Learning featured a 'Lightning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  features and is sponsored by tons of tech companies -- over 60 this year ... it, let's not forget the afterparty Techfair held on the top floor of ... unreasonably beautiful, balmy days straight through most of January. They almost

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  lot of the material covered in 6.046 is dense, very fast-paced, and ... actually quite enjoyed spending time on the problems. This mix of curiosity ... ’d spend up to twenty hours working on every last detail of every problem. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  the Hastings Motorsports Park on July 6th. During this section of the ... ahead. On July 14th, the race portion of the American Solar Challenge ... in charge of navigation and calling any important features they see

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... will be more reliable (and feature-rich) than the one that most of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  do all of this last year instead; I was going to give up on life and ... endlessly on the wisdom of making choices that will lead to equally unknowable ... on the cusp of entering college or their adult lives that once, back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot ... myself puzzling out how to implement a certain feature in the back of my mind until I’m finally able to complete the assignment. On top of that, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of ... . Students consider the concept of the "aca-fan" and reflect on their own ... media. I thought of doing it on Bojack Horseman, a show that absolutely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021