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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... as the Teaching Assistant (“TA,” in MIT-ese) for the 1:00-3:00 section

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes ... and move to the front, to make it easier for him to come to you and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  ) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was Delve, an AP preparation course run by ESP for area high schoolers. More ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... -specific. If, for example, you lived at Simmons, you could eat breakfast there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone ... ) for around the cost of just the bellows. So I spent the rest of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 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