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  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  ’re hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you ... ways you won't be able to predict those differences. Maybe if you go ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So ... spines will tend to be more active. In a hand-waving way, spine density and ... neurotransmitter to be released. The packets of neurotransmitter travel across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  safer, more accurate cannon, which could be handled by just about anyone ... he'll be just fine. And I'll have a place to watch the (zombie) Bruins ... . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  to get supplies for the trip. However, I also didn't want to be writing it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... awaits, we're supposed to go see some alligators in a swamp on the way

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... as a fun, competitive way to build tools that people would want. From ... felt incredibly motivated to solve the problems in a smarter way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  mechanisms, when often the problem could be solved by just talking to people ... MIT. Here’s how we do things here—and, by the way, we’re so glad to have ... , who also happens to be MIT’s choir director, invites Concert Choir

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... time can lead to frozen pipes. Don't eat in your room – Snacks might be ... when you're hungry, it can be irritating to smell hours later. Take out

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... MIT: If you don't know much about MIT, this might be a good place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... reaction. Source It would be a pain to manually draw recurring shapes over

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school ... but be influenced by the people we care about. Parents, for one, is on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... 'd ever want to know to be neatly packaged in an organized, clearly ... distilled into a form gentle enough to be diffused into our frail young minds

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the ... to be hanging out with me? Okay, that picture isn't really from ... inbound train to city hall, figuring it to be a good place to start. From

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  part of Stata, I quickly realized I probably wasn’t supposed to be there ... discovered that if you’re ever in a place you think you’re not supposed to be ... . There used to even be beds or cots there, but then people would actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  open to the entire MIT community and will be a great way to celebrate New ... to college. We at MIT Admissions are willing to be very flexible with ... and run by SaveTFP, will certainly be a great success again this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  was confused as to why that would be the case. I considered myself ... fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show, a song referencing sirens luring sailors to their deaths. To be fair

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  ’m happy to report that this can also be a very exciting time for college ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  write to all of you who will be coming to visit very soon. You might be ... 'll share what advice I have, and hopefully it can be useful to some of you ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  trying my best. I was going to end by saying that the only way to gain an ... pack. I put on Taylor Swift and by chance the first lyric to the first ... ". And yet when I go home to Toronto I am just "being" there, too. Like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019