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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which ... idea," he whispered back. In 1982, Fink became a founding member of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  biggest reasons that I declared my double major in CMS so early (I am ... 6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation in CMS. There are four projects of increasing sizes, and all of them

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... checking them out and maybe even staying in one (yay!). Full disclaimer ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... . We split in to groups and designed objects meant to fix a problem in

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  resting up in preparation for all of your RA applications! We will be back ... deferred or those of you still finishing up your RA applications in time for ... . For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  tragedy that had occured that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in ... undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other ... own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... section leader position in a weekly Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL). Section leaders are the three students in their second year of GEL ("GEL 2's

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  'll give it another go in two years. -Electricity and Magnetism II (8 ... now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8 ... answer multiple choice questions in real time during lecture. By

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  , has had a UROP in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department since February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15 ... in my inbox: friends, romans, countrymen, significant others, others

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send in my resume, and I haven't thought as far ahead as next week, let

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in baseball? Well, there's no crying in science either ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  changes in gender role and expectation over the past two decades and the ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of differing racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Students enrolled in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... 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

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