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  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  communications industry. We've been proud, and grateful, to call it our home for ... for something really awesome. I think we've done it. And I hope you ... Admissions Wiki.     The Wiki is the new home for all of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... made sticky notes,” said Marie, who added that the premise for the ... (for example, “end call” or “go to another page”) for every point in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me ... well – see for yourself: Now, as awesome as that was (he used to read ... -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  Catch reruns for 14 hours a day. You could easily become a Facebook addict and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... taking cool photos to attempting to break the world record for mattress

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  luminescent solar concentrators which collects sunlight for solar cells. These ... fewer solar cells for the same energy output. They can be mounted on ... Offshore Renewable Energy Systems (ORES) for which excess power from a wind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... Vibrations (8.03): Required for major, will keep. -Special Relativity (8 ... grapes for dinner. Twice. -20th Century Composition Techniques: I stumbled

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  failed for good I am back to having all those B's With one test, I will ... class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this ... .) * Conditions apply. Effect reported for a significant cross-section of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  superior culture for learning. These three branches are the colleges, which ... arrange for me to have approximately 4 supervisions per class per term. The ... subject exceedingly well. In preparation for these supervisions, you are to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... up some experiments, let the ones that need to run for awhile incubate ... time for a UROP). 1pm - 2:30pm Off to cellular neurobio (7.29). Hunger

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  for Global Health Practice,” (HST.939) we had a lecture by the world ... science/engineering award available, and is famous for his use of polymers for controlled drug delivery. If listening to him speak about his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... go out to the suburbs for that) and wandering on sidewalks for hours ... Killian Court, going to more events by the Lab for Chocolate Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  The campus -- and, indeed, the world -- is abuzz with excitement for ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... was relatively banal but for some reason, it caught me off guard, as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from ... lounge on Tuesday from 8-10 pm for the season finale of veronica mars. Not ... , I angrily support Wesley's reservation. As an avid VMars supporter for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... group decision. Don't settle for a satisfactory living group when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For ... shouldn't!) Now that I've had too much fun for the weekend (wait, that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  sometime the only) option for students looking to be challenged and ... for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions process, we are looking for students who enjoy a challenge and love learning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006