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

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most ... bout of the haphazard enthusiasm characteristic of that age, I dumped the

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

  Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April:

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the ... like the rest of us. Gun control: the subject of a blog post I really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at ... : Pisa is small like Boston but has the similar feeling of a college town. The ... , and the food is delicious!   Alan XU Class of 2013 MIT

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... in the online application (like photos of inventions/creations, extra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... that shuttle the tray through a battery of tests (pictures below!) Out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  -shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns ... , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the Harvard Bridge. As I approached the threshold of drowning, I flinched away

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  home countries of rock bands the Scorpions ("Rock You Like a Hurricane ... 'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... on the right side of the road after a few blocks. There are also quite ... of the dorms don't have air conditioning kind of freaks me out. are the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  , you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there ... 't remember what the 5 wits were. Fantasy, who loved to dream of castles and crowns. Estimation, who was great at estimating the amount of pizza she

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions ... of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed ... families will go to ensure the lifelong success of their sons and daughters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via the Globe:  One of the jokesters — they cheekily call themselves “hackers” — reached

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  have the dangerous dual combination of both being full of awesome project ... 's got a blog of her own, The Fullerene Incident, where she documents her creations and adventures: personal favorite posts of mine include The 21

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... , the cloud forecast was looking gloomy all month and up to the morning of ... and gray contours of satellite weather imagery and learning the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau ... let the streetlights ricochet like bullets through the thick thrill of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... fourth most emailed story of the day -- maybe people really do care about education and the future of this country. Of course, I have some minor and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a ... design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup ... midst of running the first of three modeling workshops for everyone that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the ... examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of ... because of its incredible teacher, Professor Don Sadoway) 21L.011: The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005