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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship ... tried to announce his vice presidential pick by text message and embraced ... actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the planet

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  was, I quickly realized there was no reason to be: he and the TAs were ... really was everything I’d imagined it to be-- and more. Somewhere out there ... wouldn’t be able to call what I was doing “moving out” anymore: instead, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  as a model to see what these genes actually do by knocking them out in ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half ... .) G - Chemicals. Bottles and bottles of chemicals that I seem to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -flung audiences that might not otherwise be able to visit MIT or speak to an ... what it's like to be an admissions officer on the road. Tuesday ... method is to look where I need to be the next day, map out a rough route

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  school students. But considering I was already going to be in Europe, I ... to. Fortunately, Prague very much made up for these feelings. By the ... walked around until eventually making my way to the famous Charles Bridge

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  was that it was made that way to discourage people from sleeping on them ... once, but only once... Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be ... building which, by the way, was awesome. It just had all the personality of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... of undergraduates who worship the KerMIT by performing rituals to ... used to be Course 25: Time Travel. Allegedly, a Course 25 major thought

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... a moment to be thoughtful and appreciative about what opportunities being connected to MIT has provided for me. But most of all, I miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a ... , that I am any sort of hero, nor do I want to be considered as such ... supposed to be my relaxation time. Each of those independent activities was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  decided to take 36 units, because we knew that senior fall would be busy ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we ... to move with sliders. Finally, we had to create the mesh by parsing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  . Sometimes it can just be a way to pass a few hours visiting a different world ... finished, that night. Partly, this is because I'm lucky enough to be a really ... that I'm here, I LOVE it! It is so amazing to be able to have any book I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... here are some projects I've done over the past year -- most of them quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  found myself being pretty well described by [annotation note="this is the ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash ... would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ways, and not all of these ways to be complicated are bad. As an example ... this to love, in that a loved one can be a source of rest, but at this ... day, it’s my go-to way of organizing a blog post. Or take To the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  . And by "we", I mean mostly them, as I had to leave a few minutes in to ... . "What's the name, then?" "We're going to be called baysed area," I ... of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1 ... gastric cancer is unfortunately very difficult to detect early by endoscopy ... at a time when I knew I’d be moving to Oxford, then later dedicating at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... of being unconfident freshmen with cooking,[/annotation]we opted to ... (again, don’t ask) ways I discovered to cut an onion. Follow the video; I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  question got pointed to the help desk pretty quick. A lot of students come ... Delve, an AP preparation course run by ESP for area high schoolers. More ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  screensaver!!! This attention to detail should simply be forbidden. THIS IS SO ... EPISODES OF INFINITY TRAIN!!!!!! And there are going to be two episodes ... road trip song! Also the *way* that we got to see Tulips memories when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  applesauce.[/annotation] To be done by whenever really, but I haven't posted in ... resonant news item to bring to class. To be done by Monday at 10 am. Time ... , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019