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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  assigned to Adam, but it has all my clothes and books in it. We're using it as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... volume.   The couch. It's a pull-out, so our guests can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  things by doing them."[/annotation] It is good to know that you can do the ... enjoyment of walking long distances, it seemed like the right weekend to try ... then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  dumplings” and “trash” and I end up using a pinyin keyboard and Google Images ... [annotation note="this corresponds to sometime in May or June — it’s not ... before defaulting to my usual “pinyin and Google Images” tactic. I give up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  summer, so it definitely helped to be comfortable with the people I am ... simulations and methods to evaluate configurations of molecules with Fran. Last ... Biogas. Coming into this I should mention, I have never used, not to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  arts at MIT or eating desserts at MIT) : it's difficult to approach ... years. Also, I prefer to avoid it completely by (1) grocery shopping on a ... of over 500 students). As it happened, inexperience worked to my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done ... need to end this because I've used all of urban vernacular (slang) that I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  Google Form and asking Abby to dormspam it because I was too scared of fucking it up, and getting an MIT Confession (the first, and only to date ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  , or is it open to anyone who wants to go?" Also, midwest mom asks, "Can ... submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the ... four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... and over at career fairs. But it can also come about more organically ... 'm allowed to describe, at least): When it comes to telescopes, bigger is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... two-weeks of the year or so. Every year, I try to make more use of my ... agenda less and less. And if I ever need a reminder, I just email it to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  pro-Klan stance, and its endorsement of slavery." They went on to call ... thought I would be. Don't get me wrong; it lived up to every bit of its ... isms (sexism, racism, classism, etc.) can lead to serious blowback. The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  together over the summer, and it's quickly become one of my favorite ... those desires in a new way. I can confidently say it's one of the most ... this year more. It's nice to be able to take a more active role in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this, but it’s better to have two so that they can both be passed around ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string ... information needed to build you up and then maintain you; it determines how you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  then (really quickly) change its orientation to horizontal, so that it ... measure this effect to very high precision, because from it we can glean ... Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  " or "comparison" it can get tricky!  Finally, in order to test the ... is get the tool ready so that it can actually be used at a conference ... can we use the simple data we’ve collected from the viewer to model the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  food product, can also squash and stretch. Clever use of compliant ... , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  future looks even grimmer. But it's not too late to turn this around. It can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single species management to ecosystem management. It just requires a big chunk of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... propaganda purposes, how masterfully dictators would learn to use it for ... it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  own, To become stronger and independent. It is to have some incredible ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two ... .   Distance is much more than being far away, It is to know how a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or not we will use the waitlist this year, and if so how many students we can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009