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  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  basically one of the gods of stem cell research. The man is a pioneer in his ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  everyone! My name is Alina. According to MIT, I’m a senior in Course 20 ... birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly ... we run to Jamaica Pond, which, as the route is also a team favorite, is

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII-A ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I finished nearly all of my course requirements over a year ago, and there is ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost ... articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside ... supermarket shelf. This is, however, a cultivation (and not just in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  rapidly! Here is a picture I took of the building, in progress, as of this ... underrepresented group in American universities is low income students) Trivia. The first and last challenge of each episode is basically a trivia competition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... hour and a half. We walked in opposite directions, happy that we met each

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... robots in 6.01 and writing about riboswitches in 20.111 ...and probably a ... Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... ), and this mentality is what landed me in Taiwan instead of MIT three ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , so it's just a reminder of how close rush is. it's exciting, of course

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to graduate school; it is not a second chance at being at MIT, but it ... spread in different places, with no one place to call home, and that is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  profile Mollie in the latest episode (or, webisode, as it is a web series ... in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... . There is one employee who also only graduated about a year ago. Not only

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit, bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the ... skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019