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  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  to be a doctor. I've been taking science classes purely out of interest ... major because there were a ton of chemistry classes that I wanted to take ... me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  'm now a resident of Burton 1, and unfortunately for Snively will probably ... than a sledgehammer, its collective love of the song "The Way I Are" by ... .e. events in lieu of blasting dance parties - one of which was the "silent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... , faculty, new and returning students are all excited by the start of the new

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your ... up! All jokes aside - you guys really are rad. We of all people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what ... 'm reposting it here: So as you're probably aware, MIT has a dedicated group of student bloggers who have spilled huge amounts of virtual ink on every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already ... . (And if you haven't registered yet, please do so using one of those

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several ... goodness for GPS and my 4 co-pilots. So amidst a weekend of planning ... tomorrow: looking ahead to the semester of TWO classes!!!

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY ... ? recirculating fountains of food seemed like the obvious escalation. a custom ... of delicious, piping hot gravy. Have a great holiday, everyone.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... Jeopardy-style questions. It will be more along the lines of Tell me about ... to MIT? What might you be interested in studying? Those kinds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits, are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  those of you who are looking for one: "We will be running an annual bike ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... pick up some other college essentials... " Enjoy the last week of summer!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... -to-analog conversion, and eventually produces an ASCII file of spike peak times. I ... of these), and through a textbook on theoretical neuroscience (i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006