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  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office hours and pestered people for help.” I felt so proud of my (veritably not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... for some context. One of the major breakthroughs in biology came when ... terrain makes it harder for larger molecules to travel, so they'll move

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week. There's generally a prompt, but the professor encourages us to go outside

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... lecturer is universally recognized for never sitting down, among other ... quantities of alcohol for the sake of scientific education. Because only at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... my German dorm for this summer, laundry costs about half a euro per machine, but can only be paid for using a special laundry card, which can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  " mold. Basically, West Campus mocks East Campus for being "weird" and East Campus mocks West Campus for being "normal." Good fun all around, and I ... plans for residents of those dorms. In my experience, West Campus students

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  over Briggs Field and miraculously stayed airborne for over 6 seconds. Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... lab. GEL stands for the Gordon Engineering Leadership program, and it is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  brightest, most talented individual any of us knew. We didn't think for one ... Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really ... cold for several hours (Jebby got a food coma because she ate so much

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  for A4) that former U.S. President Barack Obama chose to dine at A4 when ... Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions ... digression: through a stroke of luck, my car rental reservation for a sedan was ... collect temperature and cloud data for NASA with the Globe Observer citizen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  labs where you make spectrometers, quantum dots, leds, and sensors. for ... most mind-blowing moment from the course was, for me it was when we drew the energy diagrams for the components of solar cells and LEDs and saw

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him to stay safe, but the request felt empty. How could any of us ensure

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other ... before starting the psets for the other classes, I rushed learning all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  so you can get a spot on the middle deck for the best views. (I arrived ... the bigger half for later. We trekked up a path and found a bench near ... hanging out there for a bit, we headed towards the other side of the island

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  then it was call time for Mocha Show again. i knew what to expect this ... overenthusiastic audience, who screamed over us so loudly that we couldn’t hear our captains at all. i’m not mad about it though—i’ve never performed for a crowd

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... plans for IAP and the spring semester, and talk about how their fall

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  to be competitive. Luckily for us, we're fine with sticking to our ... year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  . Many of us have big adventures and exciting weeks, and I do too, but most ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... throats and chests. “Life sure does suck sometimes.” “Yea.” It was $6 for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... -pressure probably helped me. I made the cut, for the live round. Turns out my roommate ... else they were very good at bluffing). They had us go up in groups of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016