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  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  between the Oregon State University and the University of Colorado ... a state more conducive to the survival of eggs and young. This ... pet frogs and a powerpoint presentation. This year I'm sharing with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  on that besides don't waste your time on a liberal arts degree and you ... graduate MIT soon with a science degree and no debt, so I guess everything ... not faculty at any academic institution and also because I thought I had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to ... flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  centralized around and faciliated by a given institution, they are facilited by ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  the world-renown lab of biomedical engineer and Institute Professor ... researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned ... three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... 've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity."]"UROP[/annotation]-ing” instead of “studying,” and ... winter break and remembering that nobody understood what i was talking ... “multivariable calculus.”"]“7.012 lecture”[/annotation] instead of “bio class,” and

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible people on here. I've befriended seven incredibly talented and intelligent individuals, each set with their own unique interests, passions, and strengths

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  disease at a cellular level and was pioneered at the Institute. It works by ... Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied interests and sophomore Jugal Shah is living proof of MIT's success. Jugal is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  's degrees in mathematics and computer science, and I will have finished my ... about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... want to improve into a few goals. Like, I haven't been eating well and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  abandon that degree. I recounted everything and showed the administrator my ... school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and enter the adult world. And yet the past three weeks have been the most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the dark and stumbling across roadblocks. The second theme is talking. Lots

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  frying pan until you have a Eureka moment where life and the universe ... If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to ... am Iron Man. 2. MIT Isn’t all happy days and sprinkles. 3. MIT kids are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... , Spanish House, Chocolate City, and International House.) New House doesn ... usually consists of four dishes. 2. Send the list of ingredients, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  shows a lot of tough love, and like all institutions, it has several ... thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  universities beforehand and come into the event with an idea of the institutions ... , Brown University, Colby College, and Columbia University in the City of ... and MIT (host universities) along with representatives from those

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  important institution in the scientific community, the global society, and the ... crazy things happened yesterday, and I totally blame/credit this whole ... , who is living the MIT dream and running Harvard into the ground

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... , and I live in the house now. This picture was taken at Susan Hockfield ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to ... concentrations. The university research community has embraced these challenges, with many faculty and students invested in finding energy solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy, hilarious, and very orange cult that throws the best parties on campus and ... with varying intensities of floor culture, and our chaotic orange family

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020