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  thank you notes before i go

  

  my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to ... 's presentation. The first to call during summer break. The first to go in for a hug ... joy in one of my hardest semesters. Thank you for listening to my rants

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  means blogging and UROP for me, in addition to some more work for Livescribe (three jobs!? what am i, crazy???). I work for SmartCities in the ... That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... surprised to see Elizabeth named GEL ‘11 class leader for next semester! In ... casual attire, the driver asked me what I was in town for. Being the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... genomics for his Ph.D. while the field was still in its infancy. Comparative ... what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  up a good point in that it'll be Valentine's Day for three hours longer ... (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... now know almost everyone who sent a picture in, and ironically one kid

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  an In-N-Out, settling for Jack in the Box (with the scary mascot and ... Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  comment for Melis in the comments here) ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... courtyard for a brief time. It was pretty. In fact, his image just turns up ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  in the future. On a more positive note, I have a single for the first ... It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready

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

  dont want to write ah

  

  were staying in mit for winter break. that night and the next night i ... friends who were in the area, like junwon and victor. for the first week of ... how we managed to fit three people in my single room. they stayed for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  conference and on a paper in Cell. I'd worked on an independent project for a ... , but not in my subfield). In the end, MIT was the right place for me ... People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  in your major, but for the purposes of this discussion they don't count ... 2. Not for the faint of heart.) Just in case you were wondering, two ... that at MIT. If you complete the requirements for two majors at MIT, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and hopes for MIT in 2000 A.D. were expressed in a poem (excerpts ... committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  this we're even already getting ready for next year's contest. As part ... created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a ... remotely next IAP. -- Come and Ride It Lost in the jungle, Joe is

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to ... 's Year In Review (which will be coming out soon) for more. Preparing talks and presentations. I'm preparing for my MIT Monologue coming soon in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... famous for its stereotype, "Nobody ever sleeps." In fact, this is not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of ... everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006