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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is ... that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this ... an incredibly nerdy thing to go to an optional lecture in my spare time ... and was inundated with opportunities to hear from celebrities in science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  . I can't wait to get back up north and start skiing with my family at ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority ... written in Python that rarely does what you want it to. For example, when

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... Mythbusters are not foreign to MIT. (Hops into Time Machine) The year was 2005

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  headed over to room 26-100 to get in line for a sneak preview of the new ... class in the CMS department this term devoted to pro wrestling: CMS.602 ... Sunday IN STEREO!" It's pretty cool to see the whole crowd shout it at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind ... learning disorders in general. We are beginning to find that dyslexia is not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in at least one programming ... get him an answer even if they were busy with something else. In ... silicon slides in a round-bottom flask. If we just let them sink to the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  pressure to get A's in high school, although that doesn't mean I actually ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... myself for another year? So here I was, trying to get ready to learn again ... ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  psychiatrist staring at me in disbelief and telling me to get new priorities as I ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline in the place you would like the glass to break (it becomes the weakest ... extra weakness), and it must be uniform enough to get an even break

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  now have to rely on catching myself in the right moment to get into the ... invited to go eat at Maseeh dining, I wanted to tap myself in so I could ... grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... 's from all different industries were going to be gathered in one place less ... could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  was rare for my request to result in me getting full points for a ... it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... some friends in office hours. 18.06 was pretty chill and it was nice to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... account, typed a few lines in Python, hit F-5 to run, and...there it is ... 've never really had any formal SolidWorks training (in fact, if you talk to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... . This time, people could also get involved in the baking process! And it ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018