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• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  a lot this summer. I've made a lot of progress on my research, and I ... job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... , which determines a song's relative "summerness" based on qualities of ... else bummed by the lack of female representation on this list? For some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus ... . What would an aerial view of the game have looked like? On the map below ... pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  ,[/annotation] but before this week, my last post was made over one year ago on May 27, 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note="No."]Was the duration of my hiatus intentional?[/annotation] The world may never

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  killer). This is common for a lot of PE classes and my one complaint. On ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  a mini photo essay of what's been going on over the past couple of ... Bridge of Sighs in the background. I finally went punting on the River Cam ... an enormous stein with the United States seal of a bald eagle on it and

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  might be capable of. So, uh, catch me at my a cappella group's concert on ... I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... few weeks ago it looked nice... On Saturday there was significantly more snow...(View of Cambridge side from Boston) Alternate question

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  basement of Building 33 (take a tour if you're on campus!). It's decked out ... sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote-control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  recommenders may use any one of these systems. Emphasis on one: please do not ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  you the most good. Interpretations of each can be found on a page of ... to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one ... , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  honor of standing in a semi-packed lecture hall and speed-integrating on a ... solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... . Fun fact: 5/12th of the finalists live on a single floor in my dorm, an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  above into a wine glass on the ground holding two ends of cable, thus ... even after two watches. with everything going on—the music, the sound of ... of which went into the glass tanks. in contrast, she spent $600 on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  on the burden of cleaning communal spaces more than others, so we had ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  mini-lesson on binary! We ended up finding plenty of candles, so the cake ... weekend in November called Splash, when thousands of students descend on MIT ... after this blog post I will not be updating you on the birthdays of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  -promised pictures of my friends and I being all dorky and appreciative of Doctor Who ... 's equivalent of Residential Advisors--housemasters, and associate housemasters ... , chocolate covered strawberries, and, of course, mini variety packs of candy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre genre came on ("Seasons of Love" from Rent). As I belted out the ways they ... first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010