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Melis A. '08

Course 2A

Born in the suburbs of D.C., I used to live across the street from a nuclear reactor, and my current house is two blocks away from the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps my love for science and engineering was inevitable.

My name is Melis and I graduated from MIT in 2008 with a degree... read more »

Recent blog entries

Jan 2, 2009
What’s new?
Jun 11, 2008
Beat the heat in the Z Center
Jun 7, 2008
The end, my friend
May 31, 2008
Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid
May 25, 2008
Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT

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Complete Archives

Jan 2 2009

What’s new?

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jun 11 2008

Beat the heat in the Z Center

Posted in: Life & Culture

Jun 7 2008

The end, my friend

Posted in: Academics & Research, Life & Culture

May 31 2008

Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid

Posted in: MIT Facts, Academics & Research

May 25 2008

Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT

Posted in: MIT Facts, Majors & Minors

May 12 2008

Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

Posted in: Life & Culture

May 4 2008

Senior Ball 2008

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Apr 24 2008

Paris Hilton comes to MIT

Posted in: Visit, Life & Culture

Apr 2 2008

One of those “big picture” days

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Mar 27 2008

10 things I love about MIT

Posted in: Best of the Blogs, Miscellaneous, Academics & Research, Process & Statistics, Life & Culture

Mar 6 2008

The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen

Posted in: Life & Culture

Mar 5 2008

Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Mar 3 2008

Scholarship for future engineers

Posted in: Afford

Feb 29 2008

MIT is going to pump you up!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Feb 20 2008

Smaller than the eye can see

Posted in: Academics & Research, Majors & Minors

Feb 14 2008

Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT

Posted in: Miscellaneous, Life & Culture

Jan 23 2008

It all comes to this

Posted in: Academics & Research, Majors & Minors

Jan 16 2008

The Abominable Snowman

Posted in: Miscellaneous, Academics & Research

Jan 9 2008

Global warming?

Posted in: Academics & Research, Visit

Dec 13 2007

Snow lovers, unite!

Posted in: Visit

Dec 7 2007

A truly independent activities period

Posted in: Academics & Research

Dec 2 2007

Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT

Posted in: Life & Culture

Dec 1 2007

The Application Cycle

Posted in: Academics & Research

Nov 11 2007

As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs

Posted in: Majors & Minors

Oct 4 2007

David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT

Posted in: MIT Facts, Academics & Research

Sep 16 2007

101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT

Posted in: Life & Culture

Sep 7 2007

Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell

Posted in: MIT Facts

Aug 30 2007

Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Aug 20 2007

Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Aug 19 2007

A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Jul 1 2007

MIT students launch Camp Kesem

Posted in: Life & Culture

Jun 24 2007

McCormick: Girls Wanted

Posted in: Life & Culture

Jun 20 2007

Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Jun 13 2007

Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jun 9 2007

Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1

Posted in: Miscellaneous

May 20 2007

MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community

Posted in: Life & Culture

May 16 2007

Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery

Posted in: Academics & Research

May 13 2007

Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more!

Posted in: Majors & Minors

Apr 21 2007

A sample of life in the past week

Posted in: Life & Culture

Apr 11 2007

A Day in the Life

Posted in: Life & Culture

Apr 4 2007

Decisions, decisions

Posted in: Life & Culture

Mar 26 2007

News bites from the Institvte

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Mar 16 2007

Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold

Posted in: MIT Facts, Life & Culture

Mar 13 2007

MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT

Posted in: MIT Facts

Mar 5 2007

Let’s talk about science…and chocolate

Posted in: MIT Facts, Life & Culture

Feb 21 2007

Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C.

Posted in: Life & Culture

Feb 15 2007

Mad scientist?

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Feb 10 2007

Spreading yourself too thin

Posted in: Life & Culture

Feb 7 2007

Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jan 31 2007

MITHenge

Posted in: Life & Culture

Jan 21 2007

Combining the Arts and the Sciences

Posted in: MIT Facts, Academics & Research

Jan 18 2007

Making house calls

Posted in: Academics & Research, Process & Statistics

Jan 9 2007

MIT – Problem Sets = IAP!

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jan 2 2007

Happy New Year!

Posted in: MIT Facts

Dec 19 2006

NY Times article on women in science

Posted in: Life & Culture

Dec 12 2006

Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery

Posted in: Academics & Research

Dec 7 2006

Candyland @ MIT

Posted in: Visit

Dec 5 2006

Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior

Posted in: Process & Statistics

Nov 28 2006

Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson

Posted in: Visit, Life & Culture

Nov 20 2006

Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too

Posted in: Academics & Research, Life & Culture

Nov 14 2006

Think YOUR research is crazy?

Posted in: Miscellaneous, Academics & Research

Nov 12 2006

Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology

Posted in: Visit

Nov 9 2006

Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka

Posted in: Academics & Research

Nov 6 2006

Everybody LOVES a math joke

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Nov 3 2006

See your name among the stars…

Posted in: Visit

Oct 30 2006

Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats

Posted in: Life & Culture

Oct 26 2006

Halloween Preparations

Posted in: Life & Culture

Oct 12 2006

No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT

Posted in: Life & Culture

Oct 11 2006

Everything in moderation…even moderation.

Posted in: Visit

Oct 4 2006

The Nobel Connection

Posted in: MIT Facts

Oct 1 2006

Retreat! Retreat!

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Sep 25 2006

The career fair and emerging pop stars

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 16 2006

Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology

Posted in: MIT Facts

Sep 10 2006

It’s that time of the year again

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 6 2006

First day of school

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 1 2006

Heading back up

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Aug 29 2006

Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to…

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Aug 19 2006

Want a bike?

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Aug 15 2006

“Who Needs Harvard?”

Posted in: Process & Statistics

Aug 14 2006

Buying books

Posted in: Process & Statistics

Aug 13 2006

Schedules and expectations

Posted in: Academics & Research

Aug 6 2006

The best Metro station ever

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Aug 2 2006

College must-haves

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Jul 22 2006

Summer reading: “The Language of God”

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Jul 19 2006

Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury!

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Jul 17 2006

To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question

Posted in: Afford

Jul 13 2006

Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jul 4 2006

Happy 4th of July!

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Jun 25 2006

All About the MCATs

Posted in: Majors & Minors

Jun 7 2006

More about Residence Based Advising

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jun 5 2006

Back in MD

Posted in: Miscellaneous

May 23 2006

American Idol?

Posted in: Miscellaneous

May 18 2006

2.007: Where even your smallest part matters

Posted in: Academics & Research

May 15 2006

2.007 Competition Tomorrow

Posted in: Academics & Research

May 13 2006

Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends

Posted in: Life & Culture

May 7 2006

Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball

Posted in: Life & Culture

Apr 29 2006

Come to AXO Lip Sync!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Apr 28 2006

Making your college decision

Posted in: Process & Statistics

Apr 23 2006

Ring delivery!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Apr 19 2006

So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

Posted in: Majors & Minors

Apr 14 2006

The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Apr 11 2006

Summary of CPW 2006

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Apr 6 2006

Campus Preview Weekend

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Apr 2 2006

Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands

Posted in: Life & Culture

Mar 28 2006

Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering

Posted in: MIT Facts

Mar 21 2006

Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems

Posted in: Academics & Research

Mar 12 2006

Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Mar 9 2006

Biochemistry at its finest!

Posted in: Academics & Research

Mar 5 2006

Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory

Posted in: Life & Culture

Mar 2 2006

Tomorrow is MacVicar day!

Posted in: Academics & Research

Feb 25 2006

Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire!

Posted in: Academics & Research

Feb 20 2006

Trip to Princeton U

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Feb 19 2006

“The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow”

Posted in: MIT Facts

Feb 12 2006

Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience

Posted in: Life & Culture

Feb 11 2006

Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Feb 5 2006

UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77)

Posted in: Academics & Research

Feb 2 2006

Not your stereotypical sorority girl

Posted in: Life & Culture

Jan 27 2006

Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts

Posted in: Life & Culture

Jan 20 2006

2.670 Summary

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jan 20 2006

2.670 Stirling Engine Spinoff

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jan 16 2006

2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jan 10 2006

Keeping it Green

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Dec 20 2005

Cool UROP position

Posted in: Academics & Research

Dec 16 2005

An MIT Apprentice!!!!!!

Posted in: MIT Facts

Dec 12 2005

Looking ahead to IAP

Posted in: Academics & Research

Dec 8 2005

Play hard…and then work hard!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Dec 6 2005

Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils

Posted in: Academics & Research

Nov 28 2005

Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems

Posted in: Academics & Research

Nov 20 2005

Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets

Posted in: Academics & Research

Nov 18 2005

Ah, those inspirational Germans!

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Nov 13 2005

Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography

Posted in: Academics & Research

Nov 5 2005

Review of “Shopgirl”

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Oct 29 2005

The First Snow of the Year!

Posted in: Visit

Oct 27 2005

Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire!

Posted in: Academics & Research

Oct 21 2005

Tour of Novartis

Posted in: Academics & Research

Oct 13 2005

Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Posted in: Academics & Research

Oct 9 2005

Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Oct 5 2005

Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 27 2005

MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published!

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 24 2005

Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 21 2005

Choosing between a career and motherhood

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Sep 17 2005

There is such a thing as a free event

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Sep 15 2005

Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 7 2005

UROP Deadlines and Openings

Posted in: Academics & Research

Sep 6 2005

Back and ready for action!

Posted in: Life & Culture

Aug 26 2005

Ready for some tennis?

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Aug 20 2005

Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve

Posted in: Academics & Research

Aug 13 2005

The End of SURFing at NIST

Posted in: Academics & Research

Aug 7 2005

Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity

Posted in: Academics & Research

Aug 3 2005

A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Aug 2 2005

Sid Puram - Polymer Microspheres

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jul 27 2005

Issel Lim: IBD Research

Posted in: Academics & Research

Jul 20 2005

UROP 101 - The Intro Entry

Posted in: Academics & Research