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  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  're taught to associate with the class. Most amphibians are born in the water ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... a limited amount of money to buy a limited amount of materials.  The

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... "]tensor[/annotation] is. The problem is that physics is hard. Really hard, and in a ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... submission. If something is missing in mid-late November, then the fax will be ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  'm much better at that now; I want the scars in my projects to be from my ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... on the board, so I was mandated to wear this shirt twice a month in ... to buy the shirt because it had corn on it for Iowa and I didn't want

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  , Belgium, Germany, etc.) is probably in the works. The schedules pretty much ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  hour (or half hour). That's because 17 is the most random number ... somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green, double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  year. PNR This is the simplest and most commonly known, so we'll start ... .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation ... you, though, because most of this is external factors (the average MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  play in every piece, so I don’t have to go to the entire 7:30-10pm ... stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... ’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  still very much adapting to the new culture and life in general. I have ... . Usually, I am the one sleeping in 18.02 (10 am is too early for me to think ... class in the same department. The most enjoyable parts of the class is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  , however, the important thing to note is that for the past two years, I have ... most part up here in the North, or at least at MIT. And, for two ... kindly to, and that was “The Guys”—the 20-some-odd boys in my grade who

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT AeroAstro)--most ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill ... thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... that I cannot stand her writing. Normal People is one of the few books in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025