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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... toxins and animals in the ocean you are farrrrr less likely to jump in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in ... were being inspected in the video. However, what shocked me the most was

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... August being exciting. This, I think, is the point where I break to throw ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... miscommunication resulting in the destruction of the Milk to the list.    Most ... forward in dignity. It is in this spirit that we resign to the fact that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... , to participate in the Discover Aerospace FPOP! In my overly simplified ... . (This is the most stereotypically MIT thing I can possibly think of, and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . There is so much going on, right now, in my body: the battle for better ...  midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... river is almost automatic. It’s a daily checkup. Maneuvering the crowds in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  expression is sufficient for programmed cell death to occur in cells of the ... graduate program; in MIT's case, the strength of the graduate program is the ... localized to the surface of mitochondria because there is no CED-9 protein to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  , art is a lifelong learning process. I've learned so much in the two hour ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... much depth and motion she's able to get in such little time with charcoal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  competition, the reality hit me: This is happening. People are going to be in ... to determine who got the most votes (in the form of poker chips), and ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... learning new things and meeting new people. but the word ambition in its most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  challenge! On the most exciting note to me, I have spent the past three ... physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... actually see the guy there in person speaking not to mention the slew of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  . AOL Radio is on the background, tuned to the Top 40 station. The desk ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  'm going to stop yelling. My voice is getting hoarse, and everyone in the ... Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  should! This is not the movie to show to kindergartners in lieu of Barney ... friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was ... , they labeled most of the common household objects on the floor in Russian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  without much to say. Here, someone in the back of the room had just pulled a ... 'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... months, it's harder to relax too much. Learn from software companies Most ... ).  That's why the fundamental motivation of Y Combinator is to reignite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  semester without dropping the class, that is… Classes 6.036 - Intro to ... like the way the class is structured - essentially, I go to lecture Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018