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  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta without knowing about Bonfire Night. Not very meaningful this way at all

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom ... when I'm here, I feel deprived if I'm not getting at least 9). But ... . At Newark, I switch planes and fly to Geneva, Switzerland. From Geneva

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... at the kickoff, including Bryan, who's playing for team Too Much Clue ... for the occasion. More swanky formalwear... at left, Dan '03, a team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  restored at my house -- I hope everyone who is still without power (and ... brother off at his college yesterday (classes start today), and as far as we ... purpose of this is to help you "network" with alums and find jobs at their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class rank does not affect our decision. And at schools like the one in the ... , Quentin and Kallie! At today's meeting of the faculty, it was proposed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... Education at MIT and Anne Hunter, the Course 6 Undergraduate Administrator

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  some extra time at the end of class. Farhi sat on the desk with his hands ... particle" by popular press—is more generally known now in 2015. At that point ... at MIT, had been churning away at data from the Large Hadron Collider

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... Computational Systems Biology, which can be explored at MIT from three different ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  " after we took our exams at the bimonthly Science League competitions ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... year at MIT right now, I clearly got more out of that info session than

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... EECS - pronounced "eeks" - or Course VI to everyone at MIT). I also have ... largest department at MIT, with roughly 130 faculty members, 900 graduate

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  So here's my introduction to Greek Life here at MIT. MIT has 26 ... one at all either. I remember coming to MIT as a freshman and hearing ... the course of the year was that at MIT, they're not like what the movies

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... series from a few years back, American High (filmed at Highland Park High ... interesting (at least to me). In the film, all three teens were from low income

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... . On Saturday, we started at China Pearl, then walked through Downtown ... Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me: *heart attack* Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am? Me: *heart attack

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First, pro wrestling announcer Jim "J.R." Ross spoke at a colloquium hosted by ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top ... contemplate what it is like to be a “woman at MIT.” The only differences that I see between the male and female undergraduate experiences at MIT are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this ... bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... 't sleepwalk your way to perfect grades anymore. My first semester at MIT, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I was asked several times at my grad school interviews how the environment ... graduate school in biology at a time when a lot of my friends from high

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date ... /convenience stores on campus, lunch at one of the lunch dining halls, and, since my ... . Kim asked if it's possible or easy to get a single as a freshman at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006