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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode. Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... during freshman fall, but most people move out of doubles freshman year

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... thick, they also have another type of sign for high voltages: If you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  , Next made me particularly unhappy because it comes with a side of ... , and also, a side of lard." You say, "I saw that there were all these ... based on the idea of having students with the same advisor live together

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... resident tutor). The dormitory consists of two parallel buildings officially

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of bands come through. Within 2 miles of MIT (and within 5 subway stops), you ... Beast (2nd East) of East Campus. The arch inscription has been modified

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint ... of things are known about Shank1, but lots of things aren't known, so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  In my junior year of high school, I started taking single ... couldn't be the case. I just had no sense of what college-level maths ... questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018 ... variety of topics. Usually, the release of each issue has been marked by a ... . The Gala was the first Infinite event of this scale, featuring an art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like, then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be ... more powerful.” one of his implications is that if you have an ambition ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become

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

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company - there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of living in a building with hundreds of other people. finding another dorm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of ... textually accurate, they actually stole three days of break from us, but it was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021