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

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... drugs to parts of a heart that might have died after a heart attack. If ... of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  work per week, be that in the classroom, in lab, or at home. In practice ... math part II" (to 6.002's "grungy math part I"). 6.004 Computation

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  -five minutes, best possible score of 600 (10 per target). West Point's air pistol ... in ours. The white part of the target is stationary but the black ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  habits was probably the hardest part of transitioning, for me, into a ... you go is littered with free food! AP classes also have more exams per ... . (That part's the gravy!) MIT is a hard place - I can say that with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  -hour-per-week UROP, and my overly ambitious attempt at a double major ... amputations were done at the time (usually, they just cut off the bad part, and sewed the good parts back together, leaving you with one arm longer than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  , it considers itself deprived on less than 8.5 hours per night, and ... possible you were admitted in part because of the intelligence and character ... went to public school." Part of the purpose of first term pass/no record

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine ... many classes, and one of the furthest east buildings), is 21 minutes per ... . Cruft was part of the old physics building at Harvard, where it served as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  6daN5?si=b9cb67efefcd4bb7 I spent this past summer working as a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  people protesting The Da Vinci Code, which I thought was funny. I mean

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  members. Although No. 6 remains part of a national organization and we identify ourselves as part of a fraternity, we recently decided to be ... and from campus. Though we live in one of the richer parts of Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  same part. For example, through hole resistors and surface mount ... make my own by referencing the part's datasheet: [carousel image1 ... per misplaced LED, for a total of 50 traces across all of the boards

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  out what parts of the brain process which visual cues. The conference ... talk sessions all running concurrently. Part of the schedule for last ... important part of visualizations—they are where people spend the most time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  approached the first part of the task kind of haphazardly, and predictably, it took longer. But the second part I approached much like I approached ... ’t have to deal with that part too much. But it still affects many other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  are academically qualified to handle the MIT curriculum. This part’s the ... . This is the hardest part and the least fun, so do it fast. Last semester ... will diffuse power: the longer the separation, the less power per word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both ... limits per piece, and excluding instruments or props - but beyond that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  number of comments left on any given blog entry has dropped from 25 per entry under the legacy system to 19  per entry under Disqus. It's really ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  regenerating entire limbs, even when they include parts of the spinal cord and the neurons inside it, and even parts of the brain. Since the 1960s, the ... -Boulder concluded that the chytrid fungus requires a threshold of 10,000 zoospores per

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  stuck using a pen chart recorder. It spat out a hundred feet of paper per ... into. What I just described is the essential part, though. And now, for ... . Wait. WAIT. That means the files are on there??? Supervisor: Yup! (Part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  lot of CS and/or bio UROPs are a part of a much larger project and a group of PhD students, often with multiple UROP students per project or ... lab (running the code, making the graphs, etc. etc.). This last part is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025