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  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  said: "We have to realize that this is just how our friendships are now ... what exactly did she mean by how? Honestly, I'm still trying to figure ... (yippee).  But I'm still looking to answer the question Ariana posed: how

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be ... of nucleotides if we give them rules for how to find these genes. So ... frames, were all previously invisible to the computer because of how we

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... cinematography was so contentious, how Stanley Kubrick managed to make slow action ... learn about how some stylistic choice in films (choosing what dialogue to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  : Correlation of Responses to Ethnic Conflict.” I’ll be exploring how media ... —learn from Prof. Lander how to make effective pitches!   9. The ... 1. Lamborghini recently brought this magnificent display to campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... , the MIT admissions officers. Jeremie L. asked, "I'm curious as to how ... ... though, due to my time restrictions during application season and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... : palm trees, iguanas, piña coladas. To me, they were nothing but pathetic ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  is really fun to revisit them with him. we have learned how to say ... generally measure my mental health by how often I remember to take care of my ... each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  changes from home to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last ... how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  are. People are more willing to help you than you think they are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else. Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  next time. I learned some basic things, like how to burn the ends of ropes so that they do not fray, and how to operate a mill. I also learned ... ’t sure how to fix them. Each time, I wasted a good bit of time before

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... me with open arms for a hug. He began to sob, telling me how he had ... nonsense about how Johnny's influence over him would help him to be one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  research. More than ever, we need to understand how science, technology, and ... have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... , was held to address the ethical implications of research done at MIT

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  . They don't want to hear about how awesome their student is. They KNOW how ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  at this video. Nobody knows how to operate this thing because the ... blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... preference. So it partly referred to the school and partly referred to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005