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  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into ... Rogers Founder”? behind it is where we hold architecture lectures. Now ... long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  - Hot plate. This thing is amazing - it goes from like 25 C to 200 C in a ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... BOLD (2003). Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How To Stop It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  just me), that once the exams are over, it's hard to fully relax ... TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... my own. It turned out that a TON of people wanted to learn how to weld. It got to the point where people would ask Isabella and I if there was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the ... 's national championship. ''It's good to see that being a geek works out in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your arteries and blue in your veins. It's akin to a "choose your own adventure ... though it's a summer course) THAT COMBINES BIOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA AND LETS

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose ... , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Friends™! and wow it was a lot to handle. and for someone like me, who was ... is SO nice and interesting and friendly it had me shook. i’ve run into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki-forever fresh" Brian: "The answer is shynonymush." Chandra: "I'm reading photon jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S-P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded ... happened. It's to reach out to those at MIT. These last 12 hours have been ... , and to have this piled on top of everything else that's going is enough

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Columbia as he is helping to develop the University's master plan. It is ... it is usually a good idea to take at least two. We will also accept ... college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  , and it is both an ode to the nostalgia of that first year of back and ... parents used to drive me [annotation note="bless them, it’s not an easy ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class ... camera into lab for MIT TechTV and while I'd have added music to it, it ... Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  . Somewhat anticipating Spain was going to get canceled before it actually did ... actually Chris Petey Peterson himself so it's nice to do it with familiar ... This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  , so the report card was just for fun, but the serious question to ask is ... scratched elbow, I feel it's harder and harder to turn back and say "I don ... of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing ... more intriguing to me than my bio classes. I don't know if grad school is ... the displays at CES and wonder what it means to be "marketable." Am I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  trail and probably didn't expect the hack to be as successful as it was, it seemed enough to deny the MIT network access to our servers. Besides ... to move it. As campus blog entries indicate, token reservations were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006