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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn ... instruction about assays to use to discern these facts for yourself. A large

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  a lot of my restless energy into my blogs, as an excuse for ... performing at a baseline that burned me out, and slowly let people see me for ... . Hanging out in a dorm lounge with Song, and joking around for the rest of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert ... you spend the year at. This is not a very good deal for MIT students ... for a non UK student to attend Cambridge for any less as a regular

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  for a couple hours. No one can find my luggage, though they assure me it ... end that I wouldn’t sign up for anything similar again. I send a ... to events even though I’ll be gone in a handful of months. And for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  DISAPPOINTED upon hearing this - you thought for a while that they were going to ... , regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try ... pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  ’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a ... Dorms. Multistep retrosynthesis. A cappella music. Hacks. Everything ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  's hunt that got the most solves. At A Loss For Words, a cute minimalist ... . And after spending a year writing for the hunt, I think it's all the ... ? Immediately after the wrap-up, people started a Discord server for people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ’s now mostly a day for getting rid of disease and bad luck. There’s a ... supplies from the prior year — or I could probably go ask a neighbor for some ... meat counter for a pound of it. I walk away with five pounds of it. He

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

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  acquired by Broadcom for $1.24 billion. The competition occurs three times a ... more need for a filter.   It's been a great experience so far, and ... working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  , everyone is a nErD!!1!!1! Being smart was no longer a distinguishing identity ... this--a desire for validation however innate it may be. I don’t know ... words as facts but this is a rant for another day"]argument. [/annotation

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... , a mechE, in passing, expressed his empathy for my suffering. "No, no ... provide, made a crumpled nest of my most important notes while I was

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  meeting then WE OUT for sure!! Kellen: Snack liberation is very important ... got a question for you along the same kind of topic lines of WFH; how ... more and more a platform solely for like post a picture/poll/quick update

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  carved out a good niche for my artistic inclinations to speak from personal ... Kresge Auditorium, a popular venue for MITSO, MIT's own symphony orchestra ... mood for musicals, MIT has those. MIT's Musical Theater Guild put on a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... 's leading experts on polyketide synthase, never baked a ransom cake for a fake ... for no reason even though I'm a morning person. I also, obviously, still

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  ) Freshman Arts Program trinkets: a puppet we made for our fiber arts group ... event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... semester! 11) The program from Measure for Measure! Danny couldn't make it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... might help you be a good lawyer, but it does nothing for you on the LSAT ... Outside Awards form that asks for a copy of any instructions from outside

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  badly on final exams that are really important for my grade. So I ... sunken cost fallacy may be a fallacy, but it has felt quite real for me ... Col·lege ma·jors (noun) A term that invokes pain and, as

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy ... Biological Engineering. For many this would seem as a very strange plot twist ... to discovering my passion for bioengineering. As a freshman, I came to

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your ... above, and watching my friends get straight As for multiple semesters in a ... put a lot of stress on myself for not having a job offer in hand. Let

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020