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  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another year. If you want to read more about what the Career Fair was like ... guy who was keeping them from talking to the guy they wanted to hire

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  open their doors to any and every interested freshman. Much like CPW is a ... updating this later tonight. In the meantime, I would love to hear questions ... about most." As the freshmen arrive on campus, I find myself thinking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  to say. It's funny. Less than two months ago, the weather was much ... testament to the amazing environment of growth MIT is. One example comes from ... Programming Competition, and the website that gets the most Facebook likes in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... creates perfect little dams. And then the rain is free to collect everywhere

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  breathe this game. The plot is WAY too complicated to explain in 2000 ... game is [annotation note="it was released in 1997 for the playstation 1 ... I've watched the movie. The plot is literally too ridiculous to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   ... and chocolate classes; most events are open to the public. To generate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise ... Expunge the dust from every surface in your room Learn to pick locks Read

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going ... the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... a very pleasant place to stay. It felt much more relaxed than the ... earlier that day, and that the entire city was decked out in green to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  were three of us: one of us is going to grad school in the fall, and ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  for myself most of the time - I rarely go to the student center or LaVerde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... available, both in high school and college, to learn about things outside the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  year's Killian Award and the person scheduled to teach us "What is a gene ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013