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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post ... : taking all of their GIRs second semester senior year because they didn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode. Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Representation of Yan ran into The Virtual Representation of Katelyn '12, who, incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway ... the unquestionable truths of Facebook status update. This was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  universities, extremely open-minded and supportive of diverse populations, people ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college ... weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really ... people together to floor pi: pizens, students who are friends of the floor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research ... , for the record, I don't believe that 80% of Caltech's professors can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  degree but most likely can't. The past couple of days have been a series ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  of Middle East Biology Principles of Macroeconomics Religious ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project” and in 2003 “has been named 'Scientist of the Year' by the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... the culture of the MIT community. I figure that since I am sure to meet

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real ... seniors all made fun of me and my blog, which makes them so uncool. Tsk tsk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006