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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  biology and introduced him to Eric Lander, the driving force behind the ... -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  's good at Google-fu, and you found something else you want to learn about ... There are some big things coming to a close as my summer begins to ... to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some FAQs ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... nd, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... fish and seafood species are projected to collapse within my lifetime

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  our website. Instrumentalists are generally asked to perform any short ... Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing ... as scholarship opportunities to take private lessons in voice or an

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to ... Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists ... in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google ... were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... and finally feel ready to rejoin society. Today I woke up and looked out

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  did a little jig (Yes, I do that too) and went winging off to Google to ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all ... happened, except this great road trip I took to Elizabethtown College with Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted when it came to housing. I didn’t go to CPW, I didn’t look around at ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  and keep track of all the forces on each sphere. To simulate the cloth ... sense, very unlike 8.01L and 8.02, and it was really cool to see the force ... decided to take 36 units, because we knew that senior fall would be busy

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

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... though. I was actually excited! I was initially going to write a post about "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019