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  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I ... student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  , with a break for lunch. In the morning, I managed to get some work ... [/annotation] organized an event in the dorm courtyard to show Ring Premiere, a yearly ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  want to use my cows to wish some of your friends a happy belated Hearts ... reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in ... person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with ... on the ground All I wanna do is fly away 'Cause I'm trying to find the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  on this team had to lay in a freezing pool for hours in order to test ... see on a more eye-to-eye level (the use case they demonstrated was a user raising the height of their seat to eat in a restaurant). This was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the ... for which they can care like you would a pet. Amino is developed using

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... 1: Growth on glycerol in yeast requires a functional electron

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register ... , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh ... ’t listen to me,” he said, a hint of a smile in his eyes. He added that if ... was able to talk to in just three weeks. In turn, they had a lot of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the ... . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  used C++. Since I had just spent a month learning C++, it was easy to ... learned SQL to store the user's data online in a MySQL table so they can log ... -semester Intro to Computer Science and Programming in Python. And now there’s a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  produce a better output, compared to the average person working in that ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A ... one that asks applicants to describe a situation/project/idea in which ... to explain this very phenomenon to a young man by using the paper

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  Midyear Report, which will be available on MyMIT in about a month. On the ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  ."   It is a bit tongue-in-cheek when I use it to describe MIT, but ... bit strange to realize that most of the people in my class had taken a ... -graduation, which is a great thing :) ---- What I really meant to write in this blog

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... . Get some ice cream. Whatever. Use a countdown app to countdown the ... stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people

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

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  convince your GRT to get you a cat or dog and keep it in their apartment ... I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  to a world-renowned restaurant and using the bathroom. Classes given ... in a lounge or something, and might need to bring a sleeping bag). Your ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005