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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  Engineering Undergraduate Group. She serves on the Board of the recently formed ... February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... many hours of discussion and back-and-forth, we've selected seven new

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... organizations on the West Coast: Boeing, Blue Origin, JPL, SpaceX, and Northrop Grumman. So there we are, the students of the sophomore "aeroastro boot

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  kid who used to sit on the far left side of my orgo lecture hall (Hi ... guys a glimpse of my report on my India trip: I just uploaded it onto my ... '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I ... tomorrow! OK – not really true. But the sense of freedom and spontaneity, the “go with the flow, ride the wave of life” mentality is so fulfilling – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the ... much for me. On the bright side, all of my worldly possessions are now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  the order of 10^-27 m and times on the order of 10^-15 seconds. Answer ... by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  boulders out of the woods to make a 32' x 26' perimeter. On the Monday ... Center (ARC) and not by Admissions, so I'm not really an expert on those topics. For the best source of information, please visit web

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  applications have been evaluated. That part of the process comes later on, more ... , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... put on a strong front to avoid feeling the disappointment of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... contestant in the pageant! I joined it on sort of a whim because I wanted just ... in a strange state of perpetual stress, despite being on winter

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  surprisingly little automobile traffic. Because the old city was built on top of ... . We explored a beautiful church. On the advice of a tourism agent (the ... on the outskirts of town. We then took a tour of the Citadelle

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween ... plumes make everything cooler. This particular photo was taken by some of my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... 've found a home and a sense of community and belonging — here on campus, here ... going to take it "light" that instead verged on the cusp of burnout. To

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  . *They're separated by lots of wall, don't worry. It's 2pm. Goggles on ... You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your ... the vast majority of your peers passed the swim test as fresh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  different places on the blog. It's been a pretty important part of my life for ... MacGregor, a very tall, very 70s-esque dorm on the west side of campus ... really enjoyed being on the squad for a bunch of reasons: the socialization

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006