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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... Biology at MIT when he was only 19! On Tuesday, George Smoot won the Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has ... stars nearing the end of their lifetime. The goal of the project was to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  Boston to meet us on campus. The rest of the semester, we continued to have ... to receive lectures from the professors on the Georgetown side and ... piece of model legislation to regulate the increasing volume of data on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically means all the MIT crew teams ship out down to Cocoa Beach, FL, and spend ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  tennis bubble, Kresge, the Student Center, and more. Not to mention, a ... burning of the flame itself that spoke to Shadow in the dark place under the ... 's progressed to the point where people send in applications, and dozens of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep ... discovering.  I might hop back on the blogs time and again this semester to say ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  shirt on over it. Was I supposed to tuck it in? What about the buttons ... fasten the buttons on the cuff afterwards? I didn't know. I decided not to ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  , making the effort to know, rather than meet, others has always led to the ... there for the best and worst times. People want to know you. Because that feeling of being on the absolute same page with someone else, of being known

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  around, Mary Beth was still unafraid to march around Boston on the ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson was the most-played artist on American ... celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  celebrity!!! On the FPOP, we got to visit the graves of many Founding Fathers ... being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the imagination, but for those of you interested, here's my take on the lay of the land. (But I am good with pick-up lines) I'll flashback to the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is ... hard it is to make a circle on an etch-a-sketch! CNC lets you design ... ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• 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…

  

  computer model to predict where people will look on an arbitrary image. The ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... Tuesday...there was a lot going on! Topics of the presentation sessions

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  going for a run along the river when she saw me) and we got to catch up on ... and tries to pick on the other cats.  She is new.  She is very tiny, much smaller than the other cats.  Therefore, when she tries to pick on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To watch the episode, click here or on the video image below. Enjoy! ... includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some ... you need to do if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I ... Happy CROMMMMBUS season (like christmas but.. not) On Halloween

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018