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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  job on campus. Moreover, there are a lot of biotech and pharmaceutical ... days, and 2) my beautiful air conditioner which keeps me cool at home ... my window is 15 stories up and falling out is not up there on my list

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  long explanation on why I don't ever have any of those cool visual ... the litany of classes I initially put on my schedule and I set off to ... bit of just "meh" for me. 10:00 PM - 12:30 AM Went home, and iHouse had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  focuses on the drawbacks of elite colleges, and different ways that I ... ’t replicate its success with any of his subsequent albums, and he faded into ... , getting to control every aspect of the things that you work on, and learning

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents' house being well taken care of, well fed, and well Internet-ed. I think ... stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  roller coaster. As a junior, it was a bit tough to sit on the sidelines and ... sliding around if I didn’t have my boot on. And even once I finally was free ... the boot was off, it was months of physical therapy. Putting weight on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  were there for my dad's work) and chill on the beaches of Chalkidiki. I ... Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a ... , and I have a bunch of weekend trips planned for myself. Two weeks ago, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... know everyone and what they work on. There are a number of groups that ... are a lot of things to do and great places to go. M: What do you plan on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  and Nevada. 3/31 Officially. If you can handle any more of my August ... ; There was all kinds of beauty on that trip. I learned so much, and once ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  being on the boat, so there's not really any reason not to go. Anyway ... -cut, brightly-colored, potentially-clashing party shirt, lots of botox, drugs, and ... impaling with your costume. And some of the costumes were almost as clever as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  undergraduates are on need-based financial aid, and there are lots of ways to ... a bit of Boston- and when the cold October winds blew, they gave me ... -their-way ever-helpful TAs who will take time in and out of office hours to help

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still ... the damage and we realize that it will be months before any sense of ... all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  sunshine; the privilege of learning; home-cooked meals; my classmates and ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... ’s Thanksgiving, and here is some of what I am thankful for: my mother, my father

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  saw these two posters on the wall of a bathroom: (And then a girl ... ! (Come on, how unprepared can you get?) It turns out that three of us missed the class last week because we were all THAT sick. And one of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the ... your status of enrollment. If you’re at home and there’s still even the ... ?) can call a special phone number and order any number of different Bose

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  radio and sound trucks, and going into the camps and putting on plays on ... promotional material, a lot of which we had seen as posters on/above the streets ... . His reluctance to answer ANY of our questions, even the seemingly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and the results of any external examinations, such as the International ... schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class and taking tests and hating my guts. I came home from lab early today

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  I work on, and I love my grit, my capacity to suffer, the feeling of ... midlife crises[/caption] Every time you come home you are reminded of how ... struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023