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  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... until the summer after my sophomore year of high school. Of course

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... of the world"...' and 'Describe the world you come from'), an optional

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... , including the endorsement, was shipped off to one of 16 Districts in early

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... was apprehensively climbing the steps of Lobby 7 with Ostin and a small

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement ... actually finished!!!!   Photos of the well I received from our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... , which is basically the cause of those past two paragraphs of digression

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands of dollars each year. I mean, never mind the fact that the set of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010