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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  -70 watt Universal Systems Free Standing CO2 Laser Cutter (or something of ... sick of. So when a discussion came up during a house meeting about things ... jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... revelations undermine any presumption of Facebook as a neutral pipeline for news ... Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "...Any attempt by a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  questions and comments everyone had. One of my co-workers, Robin, offered an ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... organized. It made me pretty proud of myself too, taking baby steps from my ... are curious of how this happened, don't ask. I'm still wondering too

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  the 2600-Year History of the University, Online Learning Resources from ... remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also ... Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’s episode of [annotation note="censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not ... of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... preferred temperature meter is"]70 degrees[/annotation] weather, as you will

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... represents a lot of what MIT has to offer and it has personally helped me grow ... one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... part of MIT-Washington's orientation. [carousel image1="101766" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  of time/money? they ask. As someone who they'd heard had participated ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores ... the tether of this place, there's something about these walls, something

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008