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  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . There is so much going on, right now, in my body: the battle for better ...  midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... river is almost automatic. It’s a daily checkup. Maneuvering the crowds in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  . AOL Radio is on the background, tuned to the Top 40 station. The desk ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  competition, the reality hit me: This is happening. People are going to be in ... to determine who got the most votes (in the form of poker chips), and ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  , art is a lifelong learning process. I've learned so much in the two hour ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... much depth and motion she's able to get in such little time with charcoal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  expression is sufficient for programmed cell death to occur in cells of the ... graduate program; in MIT's case, the strength of the graduate program is the ... localized to the surface of mitochondria because there is no CED-9 protein to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  challenge! On the most exciting note to me, I have spent the past three ... physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... actually see the guy there in person speaking not to mention the slew of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... learning new things and meeting new people. but the word ambition in its most

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

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  should! This is not the movie to show to kindergartners in lieu of Barney ... friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  without much to say. Here, someone in the back of the room had just pulled a ... 'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was ... , they labeled most of the common household objects on the floor in Russian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  semester without dropping the class, that is… Classes 6.036 - Intro to ... like the way the class is structured - essentially, I go to lecture Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... August being exciting. This, I think, is the point where I break to throw ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... months, it's harder to relax too much. Learn from software companies Most ... ).  That's why the fundamental motivation of Y Combinator is to reignite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  . ------------------------------------- Jawwad wrote: "My interviewer according to the MyMIT profile is in ... . ------------------------------------- Shana F. wrote: "There seems to be so much focus on AP tests in the ... example (in case one is admitted at all) to have pointed School of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , freezing to them, and then being subjected to 50+ MPH winds is the landlocked ... other in history. In most of these places the power will not be restored ... still require you to submit the application by the old deadline, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  't realize is that if someone decides to invest something in you—in this case ... the most of your opportunity. So the next question is... how do you make ... -chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read ... /she have to die?' saying, 'I don't know, I haven't read the book,' is a bad ... explain is if the character dies in a random act of violence rather than in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... dealer: In the movie, Ben's major is "pre-med." Of course, there's no pre ... have enough real ones to make up for it. The Bay Area is pretty conducive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008