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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... transfer the proteins to a nitrocellulose membrane (which binds proteins and ... successful transfer requires the frazzled lab monkey to correctly orient

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  was going to happen with gene-transfer therapy ten years ago and with ... decided we needed to get off-campus and go out to dinner and see a movie. I ... . Short answers to questions. 1. Anonymous asked "Does anyone know how the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class ... need to start psets for classes. Form study groups to see if that helps ... beautiful and so big and has so much! There is bound to be a place for you. 4

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  encourages students with dyslexia to get the help they need. “Once the problem ... undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  a general handle on what was going to happen: we’d do a table read of ... just when they started to get interesting, and there needed to be more ... act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... weekend and thus not transferring that experience to you vicariously, you ... ; soft fluffy powder (you NE folks will just have to imagine what I mean

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  -deprived to feel much anxiety. The atmosphere was relaxed as all five of us ... the machine could go.  We needed to finish the other half of the mold ... . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  mechanical engineer. The mouse is for when I need to CAD, the ruler is for ... , for when I just need to eat something and keep going. I interned at Bose ... put in my wallet, but conveniently seems to show up when I need it: “I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride ... like us to see. (You don't need to clean it up -- we will understand ... some serious heat.  (according to accuweather it peaked at 108

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I figured I was paying too much money to be unhappy. So I transferred ... As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  , shall we? *** Teddy Purdue had much reason to be nervous. The confluence ... really, had to be—he realized that he needed to drink something. His lips ... sense!” screamed Ted. He rose to full height, held the wall that had once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on backpacking.    Disclaimer: I am but a wee freshman, and thanks to COVID

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... comes with a few years of distance. i think i just need to be stronger. i ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  asking myself the following: What story do I want to tell? How does ... ready to analyze. In order to get it ready, I need to "clean" it. What does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  wanted to say, really, but I had to think of something MIT-related because ... way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody who does not do this is really stupid." Actually, I was literally going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  . Tbh senior year me had some wisdom to share. Wisdom that I kinda needed ... much it can handle. Only so much food you can stack in a plate before it ... , riding off into the sunset (much like John Grady does in All The Pretty

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  something palatable. To be palatable, I think this post would need an ending ... I feel like I need to elaborate more. If you aren’t, I’ll list some ... to [annotation note=" The name for the office at MIT that handles cases

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  heal, not again. as much as i want to laugh at how emotional this writing is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was ... myself to accurately write about what i felt? had i changed so much, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  handle. 2) Decide to change majors This came to a head during finals week ... .03=Differential Equations, ASE=Advanced Standing Exam. I needed to test out of 18 ... 1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent ... forget to blog that last one? My bad, guys), but I don't think this time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008