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  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this ... to report. Enjoy the rest of your weekends!

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  institution, on the other hand, asked me what made me special enough to attend ... Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  contribute to the immunity of the nematode. Translated into laboratory terms on ... prolonged immunity response to pathogens and put them on the Pseudomonas ... .5 or 2 hours, depending on the day). (Want to see my APWH notes for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... not a brain in a vat put on the earth to do math at things in ... -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  check the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date ... guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2015. If there's one in your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... like MIT's mission to use science and technology to improve the world is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  decision on equal terms, the institute and myself, with nothing to lose. Your waitlist decision gives you exactly that: the opportunity to be on ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and ... , meeting in the MIT archives. In December, the students presented to me what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because ... be. I was turned down by three of the ten schools to which I applied for undergrad. You'll have the chance to succeed wherever you end up. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  on the banks of the Charles River to restrict British passage on the ... out. Now that I know that a lot of the ground I walk on day-to-day is ... used to make fun of Harvard for not grabbing the prime real estate on the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the river can be a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... begin to ask the questions and reflect on our use of technology, if we ... the Featured Speakers panel on Friday of CPW. Her message to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  working on this project over the summer, to further characterize the device ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that ... was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage ... makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design ... five day program, we introduce the freshman to the world of product ... , and some visits to firms like Eleven, THE MEME, and even a hardware

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... that shows how the process works: GLASS from Mediated Matter Group on ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015