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  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... Blue Brain Project, a joint venture between EPFL and IBM to ... Switzerland to show you. Don't expect anything too soon, though - I'll need a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three ... the Amazon rainforest. What a way to start my spring break! Immediately

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... : Breakfast with a friend from high school. So, clearly, there is no excuse to ... Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... translation. I'm here to introduce to you Jeju Island, South Korea, as ... assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to ... depicted with brush strokes prompted me to take a picture of this. This ... was what made me want to take a picture. The idea behind the painting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste ... whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... minutes.   Let the soup cool enough that it is safe to handle. Food process

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... sensitivity of our instruments ultimately requires us to establish a noise floor

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee ... MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  , probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b) CPW is this week, so if you’re a prefrosh you’re likely going to be

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of ... working on a new project, I'll "think inside the box" so to speak, and ... it'll have to remain a mystery for now. But I will say there's nothing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll ... to prisoners, performing a variety show at a nursing home, working with ... semester, ... A large part of the requirements to join, and to continue as a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to ... not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you ... to be a relatively quiet time for admissions officers now?? Thank you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight series. A thirtysomething dad was scrutinizing a copy of the fourth book

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... visit my friend on the same floor, I had to go down a level, walk to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... freshmen entered the room to take a turn, so we left to give them space. Who ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... section that meant a lot to me, though, was: "no matter what, do not let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  laboratories and designed a device that isolates white blood cells to better ... 'll be posting about the experience! (In the meantime, feel free to leave a ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007