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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  ,500 tumor samples, 250 samples from each of 50 major types of cancer. By ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking ... face. This mood meter is part of the MIT150 Festival of Arts, Sciences, and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an impressively precise description of MIT's external IPs. Naturally, I saved and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  SOON (maybe even this weekend!): a step-by-step recap of the marathon I ... lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I ... So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... : 4, graded Final Exams: 0 This class is also taught by three different

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , but this one was much more organized. We had four "flights" of dark ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool ... with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  grand finale with several inches of snow, followed immediately by 10 ... choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can ... being on break has let me catch up with some of my closest friends, make

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  food was augmented by the addition of the campus produce stand that ... been filled by a myriad of other activities--meetings, pset groups or ... proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  ruined my appetite by finishing half of my Mocha malt before my burger was ... So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  specific types of content. Second, I've decided to display portlet content by date instead of by user-preferences. Based on the feedback I've recevied ... Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  this is not so straightforward by formulating two variants of the problem ... bogged down by this, we will have to grant the existence of some morally ... preserved by killing the tourist is of such high value that the Y constraint

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... lot of it is good stuff that's happened to me. By no means has this year been an easy one, but most of my list was inspired by a scroll through my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  weight of 4.66 pounds balanced out by our excellent mission score (in fact ... On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about Oklahoma City, the events of September 11th or Virginia Tech, the closure

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  in fear of getting belittled by my peers for repetitive word choice ... exchange student by the unlikely name of Nimrod, who remarked, “Wow! It ... 10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008