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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... face.     Pistol At MIT, we do a lot of things differently ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the ... of the sophomore year designing the ring, which is unveiled at an event ... by the members of her class who cheered at the reveal of the all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  internships at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. One of the sites was ... that I could spend all of my days lying on the floor and staring at the ... I was so indecisive about classes at the beginning of the semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  's kind of clear what to do at any given moment, though, and coupled with ... fast and slow and fast and slow at parts, involves some amount of ... think two or three nights ago we were at the Floor Pi Discord server just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  -solving at the whiteboards, most of which i feel unprepared for.    6 ... ; Dance Troupe — the big boi of dance at MIT. it has lots of dances for ... because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  so critically damped, in danger of tilting towards instability at any ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  leanings of a space like MIT. We're definitely looking at the social impact ... the first place?" Starting at issues of power: who has control? who gets ... huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on inclusive

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... the possibility of failure. So I made an appointment at Student Support ... . Every part of my body abhorred that idea. I could not, at the dawn of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  night at the Boston Symphony Orchestra for opening night of the Handel and ... Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was, of ... to be here at MIT without you and all the lessons you've taught me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  . I'm actually hoping for kind of a combination of the two at this point ... Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  absurdity of opera. i will not be taking further questions at this time ... , the wing had caught a bit of a Mamma Mia! fever—or, at least, some of us ... . Fortunately, one of the people at this blogger check-in was Paolo, resident old

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  awesome UROP at the Page lab, and some of the rest volunteering as a brother ... everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  of the recent tragic killings of African American people across the United States – including the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery (Glynn County, GA ... , faculty and staff will lead us in prayer and reflection. The speakers at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this afternoon, and saw ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , for two hours at a time, has no midterms, no final, and 6.2 out of 7 (i ... MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... of any glass ceiling; my future looked more like an open sunroof. My ... got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  conductor, such at Gustavo Dudamel. I think the idea of an open rehearsal was ... , vivacious, and inspiring Venezuelan conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM: Resume consumption of knowledge. 3:30 PM: Study break! I decide that I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008