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  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... produced by Novartis. How about Gerber baby food? Yup, made by Novartis. Gas ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  -and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Federal Reserve System (of course, chaired by Ben Bernanke PhD '79). He ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 ... of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible ... processed. When we are up-to-date with mail processing, we will let you know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  stared out the window, as trees, jaywalkers, and Starbucks stores passed by ... bear vitamins, discovered the necessary evil of laundry, watched the sun ... parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality ... their adamantine purity despite the passage of time. As Diana Henderson

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  checking the mail, but y'all are smart, so good for you. But by extension of ... shipments tendered by or for you[...] Any other use of [the] tracking systems ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Indra Nooyi presentation A presentation from Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer for PepsiCo.

  

  This afternoon I went to a talk on Diversity in Action by Indra Nooyi. She spoke at Sloan (MIT's school of management) as part of a series that will host the following speakers later this semester:

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon ... deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background. or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  captained by my friend Dan '03. Way to go! Dan '03 of The Evil Midnight ... Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  . Meanwhile, by the waters of Lake Union, there's a park built on the skeleton ... planetarium, when we promptly found ourselves blockaded by a veritable barricade of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... . At first, I thought it was just a random piece of trash.... but upon ... ?!?" Baffled by these little men, I tracked down my friend Steven '15 (my go

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... up with excitement about class, but by now I know the drill so I was ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... 's Bollywood movies are mostly shown by Bombay Cinema at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, 4 short subway stops north of MIT's campus. They get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006