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• 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 / 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 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  realizing this is rarely the case this became really clear to me around a ... do in the world and there are a lot of problems to solve, and we win ... , and i hope they grow in the ways they want to grow in and become the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  I got this email in my inbox: ------------------------------ Hi Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... , January 12th at 12pm in Lobby 7. Thanks! Jennifer for The Evil Midnight

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... fortunate to get past the rough start and still take most of the classes I ... , these were probably one of the most helpful things for me to learn because

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good ... also, half of the book is a jarring account of a girl's attempts to learn ... some reason Matthew McConaughey is there. What We Do in the Shadows

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Course 21W: Writing and Humanistic Studies.* *What in the world is a writing UROP, Jess? “What in the world is a writing UROP?” you ask.* *Way ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010