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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from a biochemistry professor at UC Berkeley: Just wild! Now I have to ... from all of this? As a literature-brained person, I see a lot of analogy ... In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  family is my home away from home in Boston.” Experience #2, a rising ... serious. People need a break from studying once in a while. People need ... to a whole range of activities, from aquajogging to the Hippocratic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  than a mile away from home, a bomb went off in Emab Plaza, killing 21 and ... shock, from a plane crash, and there’s no point psychoanalyzing these ... Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... loan originators, loan servicers, and financial aid offices. A proud

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  tutorial from 2.008 lecture. I’ve never had a CAM lesson that penetrated ... in a good mood from fight club, despite having been beaten up, and I ... , protecting human hands from spinning blades. The anxiety around running a CNC

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  " degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... only am I learning from a professional film-maker, but I also get the ... ." Let's start with a quote from Professor Ivanova on the wonderfully blunt

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  ="attachment_74569" align="alignnone" width="1182"] a photo of the damaged floor from ... ="attachment_74570" align="alignnone" width="1272"] a snippet from an interview[/caption] A lot is redacted from this paragraph, but this is the first interview

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston ... most of the event. I also got a list of names from Dumbledore, of MIT ... changed from day to day. The guy next to me had a poster on a completely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now, you have a lot to be worried about too. Here is a non ... choosing a dorm and Ashhad A. ’23 also helped me get from the airport to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  are Stata and a view from the Infinite.   If you’re more info ... view.            You get a view of Killian Court from a lot classrooms ... photos during the actual storm (I also thought I’d be fine with a sweater

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  MIT jargon... Bruno - A unit of volume resulting from a piano falling ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from ... chosen from a different one of five lists 2 classes must be labeled

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  up. A woman across the aisle from me DID throw up: whether from terror ... needed to get from Dulles Airport to Union Station -- which is about a 40 ... Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  train back from a day trip in Liverpool. Then I painted a few scenes while ... I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour and just tell you guys a few things that made me happy this ... As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing ... /the first few weeks of MIT with. Henry: No. Coming from a relatively small ... whole campus on board. Matt: Coming from South Dakota had a ton of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  revealing no knowledge about which senator they are. this is different from a ... anonymous opinion comes from a senator while ensuring it is cryptographically ... -knowledge proofs for authentication then hackers can’t steal your login info from a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... over the years, including the most recent one. The first was a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the man across from me. He has a beard like Edward Abbey's and a red-and-blue forearm tattoo; he's wearing a straw hat and drinking Coke from a glass ... the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023