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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  . Why? Because it comes with a side of mashed potatoes. You just can ... toy presentation, and you can tell right away that she's really easy to ... everywhere. If you can't find them, you're just dumb. Sometimes I think MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  can be a fresh start. in fact, mit is anything you want it to be. i am ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of these failed relationships. And maybe, in reality, it is you. It's you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  genome is written in about 3 billion base pairs, or letters. If you stretch ... vegetable goop. If you’re doing this with a group you can use the bottommost ... as white goop on the surface of the green or red goop. You can spin it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  Confidential page. As you can imagine, with this deferral, I had to wait EVEN ... decision to doubting why you even applied. In the long run, everything works ... destined to from the start. Once you send in your application and do your

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  cool they are, and what online learning is like when you actually know it ... in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  in Connecticut? A spiderweb of cracks. The cost of pset help? You got ... -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  productive you could be doing. (2) Failure is all too common - you can't be ... MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  incredible final show (You can watch the recorded presentation online here). It ... strapped onto your bike so you can train outside. Silver introduced Contour ... Sunflower, an incubation bed that can be used in developing countries to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... international armed with inadequate English? Yikes! In cases like that, can’t you ... more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in ... into fistfights in Matt's office.  Yet decide we must, and ... :  Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  noon in Room 26-152. And you can read online about his research with the ... : Well of course. Probably by spinning a ring. Prof. Fisher: Well, you can ... the record, setting a new mark of 51 seconds! This spring, you can see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  like myself and the Pope is that people will inevitably recognize you in ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  seen him since the fifth grade. And that you took the initiative in the ... anyone like you. It's something that you can only understand once you're actually in your presence, words unfortunately can't do it justice. But being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  online a PDF of what she will be eating while she's in space. Day 1 dinner ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  admissions blogger- you can never escpae your past. I figure my reputation is ... , it prints out a header page with your username on it so you can quickly ... header page has something useful printed on it in hopes that you'll reuse

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  as their titles would suggest. As you can imagine, stagecraft entails a ... available as well, including specialized ones where you can learn how to make ... selections yourself here.) So whether you're interested in designing costumes

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the ... For First Semester Freshmen, Registration Day can be tough. You can ... the requirements of your specific major(s) and minor(s). You can create

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . And since I can't really pick which one I most want to tell you about, I ... start, since the puzzle instructed one of the teams to start where you can ... -or-less solid, injectable substance. Although it sounds straightforward, you can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008