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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and ... worm - not bad eh? Not to get into the science too much here, but the ... is that once you really come to understand your project, like really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  of it and once I was satisfied, go back to the experiencing it with no ... to Newport (much further north and w/ more totality), but still quite ... clouds, or simply to too much caffeine, and too little sleep. I pushed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  (Armenia! to teach renewable energy and circuitry and stuff) a terribly ... ; hmmmm   there's so much I want to tell you so much about my 3 ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  . Sometimes, your energy is spent, and you need to be helped back to your feet ... , words - comfort. When I don't have the energy to monitor what I say or do ... didn't have the energy to fall apart in front of a near

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline ... and not a ball, you actually have to transfer the glass onto another ... because those wooden tools start to burn and might catch fire if you hold

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis ... from it, and you need to remember to switch when you're moving between

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  . Why? Because they don't really need to focus on marketing or anything ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  schools such as MIT and Harvard who crash and burn due to personal issues ... only does he manage to earn exceptional grades in advanced placement and ... doesn't happen all at once," he said. Obropta manages to communicate with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  ." Me: "but I spent half the day doing it wrong, so now I need to make up ... once announced to his mentor that the substance they were testing didn ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  ! This is how it's going to be. Prof Belcher's schedule does not permit ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  demonstrated it once and encouraged her to just play with it. Daymé says that his outlook was very much along the lines of “if you burn it down, burn it down ... needed to “stop entertaining other options.” The fact that multiple

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

   terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... . I don't particularly know if there's too much more to say in this post

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  still need to take 6.033 and it just so happens to have a final. Anyhoo ... created a list of topics I need to cover and material I want to revise. For ... 't understand and what I need to revise, and prioritize those topics. For me, it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  thing I would say to this is be careful; it is so, so easy to burn out ... has always been so much of trying to be something you're not, from just putting on too much makeup to joining a club to enhance your applications

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel ... Wednesday. My current strategy is to just shove everything into energy and ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  . In Woody’s, we need to decide what to eat. After much deliberation, we ... initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... eating to the previous evening mostly sleeping, and had pretty much eaten

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  have been a waste of the energy required to get to the top of the hill ... as I'd built up so much potential energy by climbing those bloody ... 's much easier to jog down than to jog up, so in about a minute and a half I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a ... approximation that was much, much smaller than what I consider to be a kosher

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  don't need to. If you have to get around, hitch a ride with your ... schedule lessons, but you're told that you need to get your learner's permit ... things you need to do. Shift gears and press the gas pedal (nice and easy

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024