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  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  one idea. Which is easier said than done. Listen to Ira Glass – He ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in ... I've been interested in taking is nowhere to be found. My feelings

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  2021 to now: CJ Q. '23. CJ is, well, me. I'm currently living in the room ... to account for the width of the radiator in my planning, so I needed to ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... up to in every aspect of their lives and reading their books is like

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below and available in its original form here.  I won't attempt to dilute his ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  people you need to impress, but the one that is often forgotten and hardest ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  now. In other words, to me at least, much of today's unrest among ... in their room. This is funny because this continues to be a common ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal ... missed dearly in Cambridge is the ability to do UROP/research during the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my ... in learning to make my own earrings is that I get to express myself and ... goal is to be able to get Riley to ride the Red Line and behave in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that ... *. There is no shame in not majoring in engineering**. It is okay to fail a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... ’ve been rejected and your life is over. To make them happen, wherever you go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... creative problem solving in children, and my original UROP project was to ... my grad student to include in her thesis (oops), so after a while, she

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  paradoxical need to preserve their happiness. And how much truth should ever be ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  ’t need anything." This refers to being tested in faith, and it applies to a ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... . But, odds are, you need to take the class in order to fulfill some ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of ... difference to me is the math. Differential Calculus is listed in second ... space. This is in proportion to the growth of the student body, so it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021