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  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... welcome in comments or email. If you suggest something I really like, I may ... play Rock-Paper-Scissors. It's all up in the air. I really hope that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I don’t understand This was weird.

  

  I saw this today while walking back to the dorm. Can anybody enlighten me?

  • by Snively '11
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... for similar reasons. But I think Rice can give both schools are run for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... them. I can't encourage you enough to find programs, positions, and ... competent and building excellence in something not everyone can do that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... over. You can guess which school I will attend after that conversation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... us don't have any background in designing or making things, I'm quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... for us. Computers are simple; they can only find the genes in a string

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who ... the mail for a week or so after it was mailed (i.e. "lost in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In or Out?

  

  Out. I'm pretty disappointed, but hey, it could be worse. So it goes.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It ... sit in the front page of SnowDays, you can watch the most recent ... SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  .03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year ... Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with everything except enough time. I'm taking the following classes this semester

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  stress for you or your advocates. How can I check that you have the ... of submitted supplemental materials. I can’t type endless text into my ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... ’s what I’ll call it.  Here’s the prototype I built in lab today. It uses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... jazzy with an alto sax. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I spent 8

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025