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• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most good possible; that’s why i’m not an effective altruist of course there ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... great height of three feet and the lid broke. I could just use one of my ... bottle cap AGAIN in the exact same place last week. It was on the ledge of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was ... since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  a scientific picture of the world that includes evolution. Addressing ... As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... the majority of my days with them. It's an incredible feeling knowing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the ... wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student ... ceiling. The dorms of West Campus run the gamut from quiet and introverted

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All ... T’s RIDICULOUSLY Good!!!! And!!! IMPORTAnT!!!!) The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... like the largest amount of homework in existence. My classes have split

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  queen you are at MIT is a pale shadow of the drama queen you were in high ... classes is 5.0!); grad students are living the good life, at least as far as ... I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... of state laws. Back in TX, if you were in the top 10 percent of your ... factor." MIT was one of the schools I applied to because it was "that

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... their antithesis, Put Together the Pile of Junk! My Spark class revolved

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This ... you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of ... polar coordinates and Six of Crows was good and anyway there was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  's why: reddit has a good breakdown of the bills and some of the worst ... your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ... such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r ... ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  is it good enough? Am I good enough? I don’t know the answer to that ... . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small bubble into it. While the glass is still hot, gather another layer of glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023