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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , feel free to skip to the video and the extraction protocol, or just the ... hundreds of trillions of tiny bacteria and tens of trillions of our own cells ... priority in current research is deciphering our DNA and the DNA of other

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

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  dullness. by default our minds, skills, and resolve all become dull over time, and it is only through constant commitment to some kind of value or ... in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  three or four times this year, and it's a good way to get to know your ... faculty and professors that we'd previously invited, and a generally good ... hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to receive our rings! Most people ordered two rings, one gold and one ... I show off our rings while loitering near the potato bar and listening

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  or 9 years old and have been ever since. After the Red Sox' big ... turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where ... to really get into it. We had our own Baker House jerseys and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how ... later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to ... and faculty could make such an awesome breakthrough. Wolfgang Ketterle

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Crossing, Boston's main shopping area (along with Newbury/Boylston and Quincy ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India, where the food was delicious and you can watch as they make the naan and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  , baked, cooked, or at least pretended to, and had an extravagant dinner ... start our list indices at 0 like real programmers). The food, company, and ... retribution. Watch your back, C2. And - finally - we received our first real

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  ... and that is not trivial." According to Ben, it's got some factual errors ... 250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any dissolved carbon dioxide or when I need the tank to fill up, so I sometimes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  written before, for us, it's more than a job. We put our heart and soul, and our best judgment, into every decision, and most decisions are extremely ... for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  name is Xing Cai and a full profile of her character is available from this website." After checking out the links, I was pretty sold on Xing ... the mystery! Thanks, Eric, for identifying Xing Cai, and thanks Alissa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  our Animation class in MassArt and it was super fun, as always. We had a ... enjoyable and refreshing crit session. Then we had our screenings on animatics ... work. Our friend got a spot for the month of November and tonight was the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  'd just met seventeen or so of them, and she regretted she was on her way ... about our students—how interesting they tend to be and how interesting ... 's because he or she actually sees things that way. Taken singularly—and maybe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  , you should check out their new website - and once you do that, go ... (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  break for about half an hour and there's no refrigerator or microwave in ... dinner, and late night snack with hot tea or else my stomach would start to ... garlic toast or anything else I had around, and her fresh guacamole (or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  wing of Next House, 4W, and beyond our normal shenanigans, we planned for the continuity of a variety of our traditions, such as door signs and ... [annotation note="the demonym for our wing"]Shirefolk,[/annotation] and we hope

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  shortest queue, and mumbled to him, “After you”, a way of securing our spot ... students—from grades seven to twelve—occupied a distinct row or two. And by ... we divided into our cliques and groups. Many of us loved to hate the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  office from the reliable completion of our appointed rounds, and we will ... 1/3rd of our students Early and about 2/3rds of them Regular. Today ... in our policy or practice from last year. Your application will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011