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  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little less than a week ago everybody on campus was sent an e-mail like this: Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the ... a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let ... excitement when I saw a poster advertising her upcoming MIT visit, which was ... and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  feud with Stephen Colbert (resolved in a battle royale), a German disco light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... , this is a physics problem. And when there's an important physics problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture ... emotional bias with a scientific eye, and to daily question and reaffirm our ... with him (and they have a perfect right to do so) but rather than

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for a whole 76 days (but who’s counting?). Today we are venturing into

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali ... ;bottom-up” approach. Rather than creating a 3-D gel scaffold and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a ... been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to stay with a host?" And Connie wrote, "This might have been answered somewhere else, but I've heard a lot of different things about parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  a giant postal tube, but it's still an exciting thing. ARE you excited? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  MIT. If you qualify for a fee waiver, please request one. Requesting a fee ... a fee waiver, your family needs the $65 more than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at MIT, please contact the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  It all started on Monday night. I had a big French III essay due Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... . (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  In the news around the country, there's a story from the Associated ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... know their classmates and MIT. Thre are more than a dozen different Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), each covering a different subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  's space flights have included MIT-educated astronauts, who have logged a ... Institute of Tech, Technology, is a good technical school. Math and science ... 'd probably do a career in something math and science. Back in the late '70s or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  -- plus 18) to change the policy. :-P (For Karen, below: A legacy is an ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence ... be an usher!) that he had a crush on me. Being a boy, Carl promptly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... Council 10:00-11:15am PANEL SESSION I - followed by Q & A Science and Technology for a Clean Energy Future * Yang Shao-Horn - Session Chair

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... , it went off without a hitch, with about fifty staff members and 400 ... a row house on Commonwealth Avenue (two minutes from Fenway Park.) The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of ... , trust me, it was raining harder than it looked). My brother still had a blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... origins of schizophrenia and autism. They talk a little bit about ... building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005