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Blog / MIT Life
Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.
'd want something more than the above.) I'm blogging because in a true show ... . Yes, you read that correctly. I did two whole psets in just under five hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time -
Blog / Academics & Research
News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.
After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... complicated structures in mathematics. If printed on paper, the calculation -
Blog / MIT Life
Time and change
until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... been in many others, so it feels more or less over. I'm in Louisville ... national convention, which is conveniently also in Louisville this year, then -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.
, every 20 minutes. Because there might still be someone in the Student Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 -
Blog / MIT Life
Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.
in countercurrent. Redox occurs, there's a microfabricated nanoporous ... -page paper and a powerpoint presentation on the subject, in four weeks. Integrated Chemical Engineering, or "ICE," the senior capstone subject in -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.
I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that ... ? Reality check: There are only 24 hours in a day, and 7 days in a week. When -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous
Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative -
Blog / MIT Life
ADITL My wednesday.
photo of my food. 8:55 AM - Arrive in lab, unload my stuff at desk. I have a *great* view from my window in lab. Until 9:57 AM: Finite element modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…
Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the ... , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... process leftover animal parts. In 1997 the government did ban feeding beef -
Blog / Academics & Research
Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...
graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior -
Blog / MIT Life
Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.
work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... -Thanksgiving dinner last night. We had two turkeys! In this picture, everybody is -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?
this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at ... ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the -
Blog / MIT Life
Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.
So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... difficult weeks in a row when you know there's a break coming up, no matter -
Blog / Academics & Research
UEA Internship Panel
internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I've pasted some excerpts from the UEA email in italics.) The complimentary ... ?" Q: What does an economist do? A: A lot in the short run, which amounts -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.
sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15 ... (the basement, in this case), and the last two digits give the room -
Blog / MIT Life
Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.
-Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go ... ago, so he's aquajogging in the Z-center until it's back in running -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…
For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned ... the DNA into the nucleus, which Sid achieved by encapsulating the DNA in ... DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach -
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Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…
model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the ... Th2, which can be induced by different pathogens and are exhibited in ... created a mouse model for the Th2 form of IBD by creating a Th2 response in -
Blog / Personal Travel
Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.
was finally completed in 1994 after decades of blunders in planning, and at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world ... rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a