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  Term time again

  

  Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... transformed into signals in the nervous system. Examines how the brain uses ... of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run ... When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  MIT for this blog. There is undoubtedly much more happening than I can ... -recorded, they can record in scenes as they go rather than doing it all at the end ... I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  Called Quest Hello All! As you can see I'm taking the fight to the people! In the last few weeks I had MIT Central meetings in Washington, DC ... Manhattan (NY, not Kansas). Additionally, I've visited high schools in Detroit

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this ... surprisingly simple thing that can be done with StyleGAN is interpolation. How ... because I was in front of a plain white background, but the model didn

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , because I forgot the mat in Connecticut a screwdriver with many many ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... will come to MIT to study, I look forward to seeing many of you at CPW in ... are the global leaders in the near future. One thing that I am certain

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... write you a recommendation. They can write in their native language; the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... volunteering (teaching English I think?) They told us about volunteering in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I ... instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  in July -- just saying I think that's all -- hopefully, we'll hear ... Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  cognitive framework within which we can reason about events and states in the ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking. (I stuck

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... learn about how some stylistic choice in films (choosing what dialogue to ... Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a ... bunch of folds to run overnight, and went home. I got into the office in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  P.S.—Check out the Booklet!

  

  I forgot to mention that America in the World: MIT Speaks has been published! You can check it out at http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/FAP%20Booklet.pdf.

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  about change and how I've grown and other such profound things, since I ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no

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

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... feel free to post your interpretations in the comments. I would highly ... members. However, I suppose you could try it and see how they respond. Tip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010