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• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  Campus for housing, I'm not on a meal plan and have to consistently buy ... appearance: 5.07 - Introduction to Biochem (MWF 9:00 AM) I was like a ... wanted to take a biochem class. I might seriously take [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to ... of them. i came into mit wanting to be a 14-2 (mathematical economics ... a scooter to get around; my freshman year, I just walked everywhere

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard ... decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a three ... York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin. We first thought

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... not to plan everything out, but to switch it up, and have it be a rest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  someone a surcharge to buy him a Diet Coke from Verde's and bring it to Mac ... to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  ready to work in the Real World. The career fair was a great reminder that ... imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... stretch all the way down to Mass Ave and around the corner. It took a long

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  and ready to start (and finish) the 7.012 PSET. Instead, I woke up a few hours later practically unable to speak from a sore throat. So, it was ... understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... -player) game itself. therefore, cj decided to buy [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate ... . A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... the campus itself and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  . I did not want to repeat a class – that would put me way behind; I ... had to memorize the process. This put me at a disadvantage at MIT; my ... redoing each problem. I did not have access to a blank copy of the test, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  online shopping Give yourself a pep-talk to write so many blogs on this flight because you really want to buy these clothes Get a gate change ... .5 hours before boarding starts Try to find a water fountain Wonder why

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the ... the Media Lab, taught herself enough synthetic biology to create a small

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... , since there's nothing odd about a mental reply to inanimate objects. MIT ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to ... breath. Between our cousin threatening to toss him off a bridge and ... , people order a bunch of food to taste and share together. The entrees were

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’s bedtime I am going to email my supervisor for a sanity check maybe I am ... thank god that makes my life a lot easier   1:35 pm: me, to google ... to check out my math  he looks stumped   1:57 pm:  we find a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022