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• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  bare. and mit is here, too, as a sort of virtual public. on the dorm ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I walk out of the exam room and aimlessly wander around campus for a while

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for ... like this one. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net And of course if you wait a few years they get quite large... Photo courtesy of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on ... ! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  that might take them out of the area traveling, or otherwise be ... [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   I ... sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the ... to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of ... old. The semester is winding down, like someone's demented yo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... 's a list of the requirements: Biology: -Introductory Biology:7.012, 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning. You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... the disruption of moving. After running around the lab like a chicken ... breakfast to go into lab early), I decided to heed the rumblings of my stomach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we ... -- it should be great, since I really feed off of the energy of large ... With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . Do you need a tissue to mop up the tears of joy you have shed from ... in my life that I experienced the feeling of IT ME. I have also been ... cry in the span of one post. Jesse ‘10, Keri G. ‘10 (another target of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a ... ." I "Viewed Menu & Ordered" The rest of it, well, if you care about ... the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... whenever you need it. You should also come by this CPW, to any of the ... (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... merged into one, in response to loss. the loss can be loss of a friend, an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  :30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly ... in situ hybridization) into an empty tube instead of first putting the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday ... I'm working on identifying the genetic basis of various tuberculosis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... submitted a pset within five minutes of the deadline twice. Only twice, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... around for a few more hours until the end of the party. and when everyone ... steam, and i felt zero motivation to work on any of the puzzles. this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021