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  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  Institutes of Health (NIH) to several judges and Harvard Medical School faculty ... rich men reclining on comfy couches while drinking and battling wits. The ... England Science Symposium featured oral presentations and posters from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  and took this picture. So, as a licensed history teacher in the state ... controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  to somewhere wild and exotic (give recommendations!) so I'm learning how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in ... help bring MPG here, in no small part because math is awesome and math girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  to Solid State Chemistry. Professor Don Sadoway, arguably the best and ... (tonight's showings apparently include Gankutsuou 2-3 and Paranoia Agent 1 ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and ... design, humor and general outlaw behavior—and serve as another indication ... provost for student life, brings gadgets and other hack artifacts and gives

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left three dark brown hairs on the pillow and two on the bed; the other had ... dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  complete the form and submit it by April 25, 2014. In the meantime, be sure to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... -May, once we know how many students have enrolled and thus, how many more

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted ... first session, and this time around I'm working with AP Physics. Physics is awesome and all, but that's not what I'm here for right now. Neither

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  abroad for high school and university students. What’s cool: 6 weeks at a university abroad, but instead of studying (and doing psets and taking classes ... any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in"]Tyler Jacks[/annotation] and [annotation note="associate director at the Koch

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  that we do not have any more room in the class, and will not admit any ... our peer institutions needing to admit greater than 200 students from ... admissions for this year and let the remaining waitlist students focus on their

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  Institute where they sequenced part of the human genome. - we walked ... Cordova Sculpture Park - a nature talk and swimming at Walden Pond - bio movie marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... decisions will be checked and reviewed over the next few days as we draw ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens-et-manus spirit, students design, prototype, and test an actual flight vehicle for an external contractor. past years of 16.82 and 16.83 (the analogous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  year, and you find out before your senior year. Now what's nice about it ... degree since I would have a PhD as well? Right now, I think the answer is yes and no. For example, I've often heard of the stigma that those

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  few years. I was really entertained by this clever and subtle hack, so I ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these ... -group, and the team working on the hack often included members of such groups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005