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  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant ... Decide to skip molecular bio (7.28) recitation. Tempted by the prospect of

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  Fangfei at the Welcome Festival, where we were greeted by the Logarhythms who sang “Over My Head” by the Fray! The Fray = awesome. (Go ... sleep by 2 am (even if most of the students were still up doing an 18.03 p

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the ... was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain that the "Sell By" date should be taken in a literal sense - "the milk

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... dolphin. The stack of paper is your course notes. They were written by your ... the area who could easily be hit by anything you may or may not throw in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  as JKim, but this is because by the time you have gone to MIT for three ... by companies. On Friday, we figured out how to design a showerhead ... little bit disappointed to find out that this class was not taught by Frau

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by ... still life painted by Jan Brueghel, but forgot to take a picture of it ... collection of work by Peter Paul Reubens in the world. Apparently he really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Holland 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel is about ... new gaseous and combustible form of water discovered by some guy at the ... combustible form of water, which is created by an electrode and is perfectly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  ; Mohamed then followed by explaining how, when he first came, he had fears of ... wanted to focus on their experience in the classroom by asking them about their favorite memory from teaching physics.    Mohamed started by

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  is still surrounded by farms: two blocks from our street, suburbia ... land it sits on. There are immense green lawns, interrupted by trees and ... not result in a bad education. Penn State is ranked 64th worldwide by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to ... moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of ... boards the train. I’m very charmed by his hat. I want one like it. Then I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  user interfaces. We read a couple of papers published in 1990 (!) by ... compiled by the authors. There were two takeaways from the paper that made it ...  "Heuristic Evaluation of User Interfaces" by Jakob Nielson and Rolf Molich  Pooling people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... Ivy League schools, and the elastic enrollment afforded by Minerva ... I'm troubled by the Minerva Project; specifically, by the lack of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  semester comes to an end. classes hold their last lectures one by one. many ... . they organize dinners where they swipe in their friends one by one ... sleep constrained by the mere bounds of day or night. and so the semester

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her ... drinks.  Founded by owners from Ho Chi Minh City, Phin brings the “bold ... station Back Bay  Greystone, founded by mother-daughter duo Patty and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and ... here. Two divided by four is one half, and that’s a little terrifying ... being by them and the T lines because I like trains. oh, and the places I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... car passes by an empty city. It then descends down a poorly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side-by ... , and so I would have to cram work into the corners to get it done by ... 5 days," which was a nice sentiment, but undermined by the fact that

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

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Changes, Described by a Frosh." _______________________________ Good news ... String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and other WTF Research by Marc Abrahams ... Palahniuk books) is Tristano by (sort of) Nanni Balestrini. The book is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... taught this term by Professor Robert Simcoe, who spends a lot of his time ... that the reading you're using to complete the lab is written by

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  lines, but the lesson was sadly overshadowed by the fact that his USB ... moving point charge before learning electrostatics? By the way, the problem ... -humored kvetchfest by remarking that I have nothing to complain about and that it took

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009