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  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  A reminder: Fall 2006 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline ... options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... . You can register as a pass/fail UROP or as a graded UROP. But, note that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  birthday, so his parents are coming up from Plymouth for a big family dinner to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to ... work I've been doing for the past year and a half. I'll be graduating

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... a week current material: So far, we've discussed early parks, focusing ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, experienced some those feelings even before becoming a parent, because of her

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor planet (a.k.a. an asteroid, but minor planet sounds substantially more ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  schedule for the next term, but this takes place several months before a term ... taking 7.31 (Current Topics in Mammalian Biology), a seminar-style upper ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... Library has a phenomenal collection of resources to educate and entertain ... senior prom. Stefano '06, a physics major, listens to a classical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... , deluxe'd out with a cupholder and five disco-colored stripes underneath a ... visage. I duct taped a garbage bag around the hole because I didn't want my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings ... 't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of ... was well past the Add Date. However, after frantically filing a Late Add Form, I thought about 6.0002 as a whole. Do I really need this class? Not

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... , if this were a normal semester, i'd be dancing upwards of six hours a ... members choreograph/learn dances for a virtual set, but it's a "mess around

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... , and I've left behind my past self but haven't yet entered a new one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  hello! i'm creating a podcast. the tentative name for the podcast is ... [annotation note="an independent living group."]Pika[/annotation] and is a part of [annotation note="a wonderful acapella group that i'm a part of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of this too honestly too much of this some of this and a sad amount ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017