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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... that I thought he had, and that I need. (I am annoyed.) He tells me to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... are so many awesome people to meet and activities to try (and so much work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... and culture: we hold our students to a high standard and give them a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... criticizes MIT, it does so in a thoughtful, positive way, ending with an incitement to celebrate SHASS, and giving a lucid, balanced explanation of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... stark contrast to mindlessly lounging on a couch, you could try taking a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... sense) At MIT, all freshmen have the option to apply for a "freshman

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... never have experienced otherwise. Because I was a blogger, I was hired to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8:00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... in Maine with the Burton 3rd Bombers, who were so much fun to party

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... be viewed here. Figure 1: Daily Activity I made a box-plot to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014