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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication ... is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the ... transcription of another protein that allows the synthesis of a certain amino acid

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  . Shorts! The weather reminded me of scenes from around this time, two years ... in the grass near MIT Medical, doing some sort of stretching. What ... for me. I receded into the basements of Stata to shield myself. I then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  student's essay or some other aspect of the application. The short answer ... differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month, Virtual Museum of the Month, Painting of the Month,  Puzzle of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... take advantage of the new feature they implemented after Randall Munroe ... . Describe the manifestations of the impact, not the impact itself. This is a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... freedom to get around. They offer convenience and flexibility to fit the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  summer. Professor Markus Zahn talked about the logistics of the program ... 6 students go through an interview process in the fall of their junior ... think the last part of the presentation was the most inspiring. (Although

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 ... are some of the more common ones: Are MIT classes ridiculously hard ... explore any part of MIT you want to: the dorms, the classes, the clubs, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art lottery that ... very strongly in the 1960s culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  gyms and free practice hours for members of the teams). We have an ... MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some ... stringent about tryouts and cut quite a few of the people who try out. If you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... contact David Elwell, associate dean and director of the International

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of ... 'm slightly afraid of the person i would become if i lived in LA. portland is ... face after being in the west coast, but it grounded me, and i realized

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering ... the engine is only half of the process. The machining is divided between ... optimize our engine. Here's a picture of a modified engine (from the 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 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.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  it to us and also demonstrate the effects of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the ... picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for ... controlled with joysticks). The goal of 6.270 is to teach students about

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011