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  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  in lab. The most exciting thing that happened to me is when my work got ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... this is the case with other people as well, but I had the luxury to pick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Pass/No Record is not an excuse to slack off and not learn the basics ... all MIT students. MIT is one of the few institutions in the world that ... . In the long run, it's better to judge the rest of MIT - and its

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Whoever the new housemaster is, I'm only going to have to live with him or ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few ... Job! to my friends who were involved in it, but the reason I bring it up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  everything in our way! *Warcry* *Praise the sun* *Well, what is it?* Game ... remain focused during IAP. Focus is really the hardest thing to maintain ... to: Serial, In the Dark, Dirty John, and Dr. Death. Video games

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home ... , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the ... with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  living in the same room all day is anything new to me, because during my ... don’t find as much joy in the things i used to find joy in, that talking ... , what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? these past few weeks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  in the past year and a half, I’ve come to realize that it’s truly the ... first thought in my head will be the study group I had to get me through ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in ... Washington to get to the Tuckerman’s Bowl. The hike up is worth the ski down ... Connell Division in the Northeast, which is USCSA, and we have 10 races in the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would ... myself. I try to be nice to myself. And it works, mostly; and the days are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I ... -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to ... -192. Alan: So we moved in the opposite direction, to a large, nondescript

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... literally in the perfect place to have too many things to do around off ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way ... food in person every time we attended, but unfortunately due to the ... physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  setting is for the summer. During my summers, I always try to set some ... extracurricular classes, for that matter - is literally the last thing you want to ... read, let alone want to read. Hanging out with friends is a much more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , however, have about 5-15 students in them - 15 being the very most. These ... study sessions) held by the ESG TAs, because it's much easier to freely ... learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010