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  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... the fine & performing arts in high school, over 60% of accepted

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... blackboard skills beyond reproach. One of the most popular lecturers in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being ... majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... watched the moon begin its eclipse with a group of other residents. It was ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of ... the romance of egalitarianism aside, though, to talk about empiricism

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands of dollars each year. I mean, never mind the fact that the set of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... change is real, and the result of human activity. The evidence is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... ." "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... was apprehensively climbing the steps of Lobby 7 with Ostin and a small

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015