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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... ’t prerequisites to success. in the end, you’ll be yourself wherever you go. mit is ... so loudly in the wee hours of morning that sleep is an impossibility

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random ... earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some ... you learn to care for others. practicing that is one of the best things ... to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely ... in Sideways, we worked hard to find unusual flavors in the chocolate ... hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the ... the bravest people I know, but even so, it’s hard not to see the fear in ... in February, she’s struggled to stomach the idea of leaving home

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... , first years have the option to stay in their dorm or move to a different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  :24 pm:  everything is somewhere in the millisecond range,  which is what ... , at least in part because 6) is based off the perfectly smooth conical ... cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... here at MIT. The way I managed to get this one is I emailed a lot of ... because learning is learning, and you'll get that in pretty much all UROPs

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the ... liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  .) paper art is pretty. With that in mind, I started reaching out to ... -cut paper. 1/22/24 to 1/24/24 In the beginning of the week, I went to ... , I had to complete some in-person training. The first thing I learned

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... `things’ is often subject to diminishing returns, the world of ideas is not ... ` (MIT`s motto-- had to stick that in somewhere) to ask the right questions

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  , once your moment is over, you need to get back in the game as well ... this class. For many there is a perception that the only way to increase diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently ... . [...] Truth is, we are mostly too acquainted with the opposite, with the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  because we were expecting rain but mostly to protect us from the bouncy ... -shirts (because blue is sneakier) and waited for the next game to start. Never ... much else, and I spent most of the second game exploring. Blue team still

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  to do is set up some positive controls and put it in the plate reader ... 're the most beat-up pair they've ever seen. i finally got around to placing ... include a positive control for a comparison), and the data is beautiful in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the ... : melancholiathemovie.com Without sharing too much about the film, Melancholia is &ldquo

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... out the details with the actors. Anyway, Stephanie is in a kind of large ... bikini. You see Stephanie get the message, clap her hand to her face in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th ... lead and how much they contribute to our Air Force. In ROTC, during the ... and dirty in some jets and really get to know the enlisted side of the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008