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  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  's Tumblr. Lifting weights, riding bikes, making things out of clay ... ago, when I went up to him humming with nervous energy (a mix of ... . A million too many thoughts and intentions. I need to chill out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... . Tests every couple of weeks (I just took my first couple tests this past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  simultaneously process millions of parts in a given factory. Christina's research ... wafers must undergo repeated cycles of deposition, patterning, implantation of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  millions of users. That's how people can start their own websites without ... my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  index, Birth of a Nation would have made over $336 million dollars. This ... to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  equally grounding, but a million times more painful. A dear friend of mine ... process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  a Stand. Burma (officially Myanmar) is a country of 50 million people ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  average Research & Development cost of one drug is around $850 million ... the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  . The jets shoot off at 175 million miles per hour, 26 percent of light ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... remember" is lead author of an upcoming paper announcing the discovery of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  feet have millions of little projections, called setae, that split into ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  class of 2013, the government shutdown, and a host of millions of ... , it means: Meh, was a busy month; definitely first week of February. On ... resolution this year. -- It’s 2014! 2013 was the year of Wrecking Ball, What

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books ... mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... , working on a project that is looking at the vulnerability of the different

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because ... with a love of all things scientific, too, or you probably wouldn't have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams ... Integrative Cancer Research! Oncology has been a major research interest of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  about 3 million different things that spray water around in a myriad of ... with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of ... those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006