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Blog / Life after MIT
Full Circle Professor Anna
I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation -
Blog / Advice
a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe
a combination of random beans and lentils. I’ve had the recipe I ... supreme. This, of course, is the primary reason, and everything else is ... combination of spices. But when I went off to college and tried to make the same -
Blog / Admissions
All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…
I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... , including undocumented students) could not apply to MIT during the Early -
Blog / MIT Life
Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post
Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April ... -city's-a-madhouse, the 'tute annually gives us this four-day weekend. My favorite kind of -
Blog / Events
Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.
you will later regret as you gnaw through the fibrous lump of homework ... the fact that the reference frame of this sentence is accelerating ... Wednesday beheld the night of MIT's annual Integration Bee, the spelling bee -
Blog / MIT Life
Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!
handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I ... by other students, so I'd say that the content matter of these videos is pretty much in line with the interest levels of MIT Blog Readers -
Blog / Events
July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!
. Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... on TV, part of the barge actually went up in flames. Remember, you saw ... So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT -
Blog / Classes
classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition
examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween
cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol ... presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue ... -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an -
Blog / Prepare for MIT
Leavetaking and homecoming
liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons, the toads would dig their way out of the ground and gather outside our -
Blog / Academics & Research
Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23
contributions to the field of linguistics in my Intro to Linguistics class (24 ... States. We believe one of the most effective means of combating militarism ... that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
i saw you four ways to follow MIT students
i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs
This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... within a taped square on the other side of the gym. I don’t suppose -
Blog / Challenges
Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2
On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into -
Blog / Challenges
art and work i really struggled with titling this one
- watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like, then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the ... polish them; the rest of the paragraphs just become a way to link the main -
Blog / Hacks
“someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo
: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-holy-grail-of ... back in the fall of my first year was intended to be a Mario movie watch ... instead (and some of the VGO exec members were modding the chat??) Some kind -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night
theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s ... = Lighting Design; 21G.501 = Japanese 1; 14.73 = The Economics of World Poverty -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.
reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... resident tutor). The dormitory consists of two parallel buildings officially -
Blog / Academics & Research
To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.
actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... scaffold protein found in the post-synaptic density (PSD) of neurons. It ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of
