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  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  fossil isn't the plant or animal itself: it's the mineral imprint of the ... the thing which casts a shadow. It's the contours of where the light isn't. That's how our admissions data work. It shows you where the decision wasn't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  about an hour south of Tokyo for a company called Toray Industries. Haven’t ... amounts of TBS-T or insect cell media), we go to lunch, we work some more ... crackers, but overall I didn’t feel hyper culture shocked coming here. Then

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  can't spare an hour to watch the interview here, have a look at these ... definition, you are making something that wasn't there before. What is ... important part of your experience--and this is already the case, but I don't

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  . Still, I had fun.  This weekend was quite great, and it wasn't even near ... many times as they could.  I couldn't participate in running this year ... chaos, but IAP is almost over and I can't wait for a new awesome semester.

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  about this, but I only recently got all the applications done and didn't ... protocols. Also, for those of you who don't know about Langer Lab - it's the ... ! Speaking of which...   IAP I cannot wait for IAP.  For those who don't

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  my whiteboard - I'm an idiot and didn't copy it down, but it read ... idiot and didn't take a picture before eating it all (it was One Of Those ... but important post (SO MUCH J-LAB TO DO I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND AHHHHHHH

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  stuff. I haven't decided how I feel about this. Actually, things have ... and counterpoint, YOLO. (Please don't smack me. I promise to never say ... . Seriously. It won't be that bad, right?) Ran back to 309 lab, where my partner

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  prototype of CourseRoad over Presidents’ Day Weekend. I didn’t quite realize ... ://courseroad.mit.edu (You don’t need an MIT account to use the site, but if you don’t have the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  Hey y’all, My god I can’t believe it! It has been almost 2 months ... or the coming spring, don’t hesitate to ask your supervisors or ... yellow fluorescence: Add another plasmid, now you don’t!! :) And last

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start ... of grapes -- turns out they weren't even hers -- or realizing that at ... the dot because we missed lunch and we can't wait to order sweet potato

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt ... and visited many places, I thought I would get a little lazy and wouldn’t ... solid human tumors are aneuploid!! I know both of these facts, but I haven’t

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP ... excites me! I can't believe some of the opportunities MIT students have to ... classes are awesome. I don't think I've blogged about this, but since coming

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  no, I don't want to think about them, and neither do you. So let me ... 's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add ... were all swiftly met.) I couldn't imagine my MIT experience without my

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment ... . You don't need to "do" anything beyond that. But also remember to make ... school of your choosing. That's amazing. But please, don't get caught in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , because they haven't been able to work on them with the power out. While I can't restore whatever drafts you may have saved to you, here are the ... 've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  hear people's thoughts about. The other is Google Plus. We haven't done ... could do to improve its privacy). But I haven't begun using it yet, and I don't yet have a sense of how students are using it, or finding it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  ? Will you miss MIT after graduating? Me: Well, I'll miss MIT. I don't want ... really nice language that isn't full of warts...but on the upside, me not ... Algorithms Me: Haitao, didn't you already cover like half of this material in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  heard someone tell you that they won't be honest with you? It makes me ... knee. Yes, I'm so manly that I beat myself up. I actually didn't notice ... and was greeted by this lovely sight:     Horrifying isn't

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  cool things. While she hasn't yet chosen between Aerospace ... front of him sang the song he was going to sing (he didn't make it ... .  These folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Mount Auburn Hospital I admit that a trip to the hospital wasn't really ... ...really? Wouldn't that hurt? Answer: Nah. Not if you do it right. I guess I did it ... hundreds...you can't help but feel like a part of a community. It was the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011