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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string ... as white goop on the surface of the green or red goop. You can spin it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... . If you want, prepare waffles in the toaster and put the meat on top of ... that there are zillions of crockpot meat and chicken recipes on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  of both strats (people working mostly on code) and sales (chatty ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... two flights of stairs (grade five) to trying to sit back on a chair ... holding a fat chunk of cake. 5) SEPTEMBER 12: On September 12, 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  Experimental Biology). I glance at my watch, which of course is on my computer ... laboratory greenhouse, that I know of on campus. When my mom visited for a few ... the 6.115 Microcontrollers lab on a lower floor of this building. There

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  Seminar in Music, where we wrote a 20-page research paper on a field of our ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on ... currently live on the First East floor of East Campus.   What are you ... in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  , rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... and start something new, create something from scratch, make it go

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso ... and boy are my arms tired." (rim shot) But seriously, I have been on the ... Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  've started a personal blog here. Best of luck to you all. Don't be a stranger

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  conversation on our shared love for coffee. I rattled off a few of my favorite ... will likely continue to stay on this side of the world if I attend ... of what I’ve missed. Like my favorite coffee shop hiring new baristas

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  makers in our admissions process, and has a general love of hands-on ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... fears of the leaving and the trying to find new places and the forgetting ... each other on birthdays. usually.   i only have vague recollections

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  recommendations. Some of these movies on the "To Watch" list include, but are not ... One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  fantastic opportunities in the past year. Ministry of Supply got to present on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. According to Andrew, “One ... of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  on this weird mesh of humanities and engineering and I've never been happier. While I'm not psetting in front of the Stud or lounging on the ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017