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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  . There were 13 display screens set up in Lobby 10, one for each of our ... either confirms you were right or clears up what you got wrong. I guess I ... , that's mostly what I've been up to this summer--odd jobs on top of one of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  will be lost when you are old. We shed as we pick up, like travelers who ... up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  , November 22nd Waking up on Fridays involves quite a few glassy-eyed stares ... to wake up two and a half hours earlier than usual without collapsing ... up and it’s nice to know that there’s an entire group of people out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  visible. Up ahead, he sees the lights from a gleaming building. Maybe a few ... wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come ... action and build-ups of pressurized gas? Maybe they would have kids, little

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you ... get up nice and early but I will have misplaced my MIT ID and not only ... , MIT kids are human beings. Go ahead and open one up – we have the same

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  ? Eternal freedom. No homework. Staying up past midnight every night. The ... this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in ... of the Institute keeping my morale up. As my gap year drew closer to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... department, and the two sections share the same material up until past the ... how these choices of mine hold up over the semester.

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  . Sophomore year was indeed better. Architecture courses started, picked up some ... of, that you can stand by and own up to. 2. Follow up -- it’s not that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.” The only condition ... his father's college workshop.  To be able to make whatever I dreamed up ... : break students up into groups of around five, teach them how to use

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... , the complete text of Atlas Shrugged, which ended up winning the hunt ... ’t end up solving), Czar Cycle: None of us know Greek, one of us knows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  restriction enzyme will allow you to cut up DNA and paste different combinations ... of size and charge. By firing up a current that courses through an ion ... , it helps you finish up a 9.12 lab. Otherwise, you can use the lengths

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  dressed up super pretty for the final awards ceremony!  It was so much fun ... finally showed up, and I actually got admitted to my dream school!!  I WAS ... to MIT.  She said okay, and then I crawled up the stairs and passed out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  flowing endorphins, catching up to me like a tidal wave I had sought to ... looked back and asked what made me give that all up. But all I know - or ... at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  thankfully Schnoogle is still up). So everyone in the room is going around ... with being a Classics major and eventually ended up majoring in Religion ... them that connected up with fandom! So I applied to grad school at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  each piece are different light bulbs which light up at different times to ... booklet that I picked up at List: Haacke rejects the name &lsquo ... would recommend looking up some of his more recent pieces if you

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  couch, and put my feet up on his desk. The downside, I guess, is that I ... yourself to risk playing the alchemist and trying to cook things up to make ... LOVED IT. We had a duty to our readers to come up with a way to offer just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  possible responses from users. In the end, they came up with 173 categories ... Clara. In California, the group set up a podium in their hotel room so ... on Eastern Daylight time, they got up at 5:00 the next morning, so they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  picked up my pset and glanced through it quickly, counting problems to ... 'll really enjoy the questions that spring up as you work through some ... my closest friends I've met through psetting. Huh. So to wrap it up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  , beginning this year we will be setting up an email address specifically for ... in mid-late April with an update on what you've been up to since our ... ! Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and beyond if you remain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  've grown up on the stations in MA; my presets are ordered such that 104.1 is ... start of my next assignment, however, something came up. I was heading to ... pick up my vehicle, cash in hand. Since I'd been itching to get in some

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010