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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   ... and chocolate classes; most events are open to the public. To generate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise ... Expunge the dust from every surface in your room Learn to pick locks Read

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going ... the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... creates perfect little dams. And then the rain is free to collect everywhere

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  breathe this game. The plot is WAY too complicated to explain in 2000 ... game is [annotation note="it was released in 1997 for the playstation 1 ... I've watched the movie. The plot is literally too ridiculous to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... a very pleasant place to stay. It felt much more relaxed than the ... earlier that day, and that the entire city was decked out in green to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  were three of us: one of us is going to grad school in the fall, and ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  for myself most of the time - I rarely go to the student center or LaVerde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... available, both in high school and college, to learn about things outside the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  year's Killian Award and the person scheduled to teach us "What is a gene ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... teaching. Needless to say, in the classroom, they do their job well. My 18 ... , and attempt to finish all of the problems in (hopefully) one sitting

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  lack is so important. The most recent leadership initiative in Student ... the initiative to make a change in the community. The MIT Public Services Center offers students the opportunity to volunteer in its numerous

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... event. Friends, this is the Green Building, home to EAPS ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... particular airline. I don’t think the problem is the self check-in machine or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009