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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... DNA. This situation means that a strain unable to grow on glycerol could ... -. For the mitochondrial genome notation a strain can be ρ+ or ρ- where the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  drove home at 3:03pm and made a mental plan of everything I wanted to do ... background, my parents immigrated to America and opened a small Chinese ... ://conniewenchang.bol.ucla.edu/menus/index.html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  BB gun harpoon gun a sedative Whattt a week to repeatedly kick my ... to a lot of unnecessary comparison and dangerous competition on my ... me in limbo for what to do over the summer. The options are: a) Stay

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... only ever been able to do this passively, eg. via being a good listener

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  adding Halloween to my blog post, but it was a rather quiet Halloween in my ... -or-treating (ahem…) – it was tradition for me to sit outside in a chair pretending to ... down the street who I scared a bit earlier to break out in laughter

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  worked as a secretary and a waitress, Moore was the first in her family to ... to Moore and her husband, Matthew Moore, a patent lawyer and partner at ... have three sons, ages six, four, and two. Moore, who planned to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... "]6.006[/annotation] recitation. After, I head over to Kresge, where I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in ... ’m doing, spend my days like this. This is a truth I’ve come to accept. This ... issue is that I’m not ballsy enough to drop out and pursue a passion or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... % to 10%, with a mean and median of ~5%. What are the realities here? I ... shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... bored easily. Details to follow. I am also TAing a class, but that time ... where floods are a common occurrence. Finally, our major term project is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  ’s sorta sketchy, so I see the cop cars, and the cops talking to a woman standing next to her bike, from about a block away. Cops are rarely good news ... . Why’d he tell me to turn around? I slowly came to a stop and locked up

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• 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…

  

  's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... anesthetized mouse and had me conduct a perfusion to fix its brain, a surgical ... 'm sorry, but you're wrong. At other times, it's quite a lot to handle, and

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

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... Burton Conner. Recognizing my desire to blog a bit before then, Laura rushed to help by giving me a chance to guest blog for her, which is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... ). I haven't figured out if I want to pursue a research career within ... comfortable. I was given a laptop, two monitors, and a bluetooth mouse to use

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  ,” she said, leading him gently to the couch facing a television that could ... her temper—but give him a good talking-to just before then. “It’s over ... had begun forming, thanks to a failed New Year resolution—and worked his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  procrastinate until the last minute. Doing this gives your brain a chance to ... made you decide to put all this effort into a transfer application? Don ... saying “This is what I’m gonna do when I go to MIT!” Frankly, a lot of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was ... make a portfolio, the volunteering was because I wanted to help people

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... course you'll find cool people in other places too, but enough of them to ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... longer supports student art—there's just been a shift to impermanent forms ... administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023