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  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... 'm actually taking the class on junior/senior P/D/F, so I'll just get a passing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... best. 2. Get a good night's sleep. Every night. I've been in lab as late

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT homepage

  

  By the way, if you haven't been to the MIT homepage today, you should check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and ... “girly girls” were smart. When I grew up a little I started to feel the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... encourage students to get used to talking with them, they'll take any kind of ... to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

   or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... Dubai to Ahmedabad. Half-asleep, I then got in a taxi and drifted in and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... malfunctioning, and as the weeks dragged by into November, the mismatch became a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... practically gave it a standing ovation) but the dessert was a disappointment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... into a dreamless sleep, and eight hours later, woke up to catch my flight ... ) on a mini-roadtrip to the small town of Brenham, home of Blue Bell ice

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z-Center pool to cheer briefly for the water polo team. (We will, as a general ... cheering the water polo team to a 5-2 lead at the end of the period, we left

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  public case for itself, to prospective students, with a strong message ... , unearthed a lost (literally: it had been misnamed and misfiled) MIT Admissions ... 's an even older silent movie called Technology (1934) that was sent by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  don't have a chance to read this anyway, but just in case- stop by and ... for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... . But I have to say, last night's trip to Shaw's was my absolute favorite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  President Martin Tang GM '72 pledges to donate a generous sum of up to $25 ... sorts of "international food" since our class gift is going to establish a ... campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do ... agnostic as to whether a student who has taken the exams should submit their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021