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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode ... Taiwan looked like. Most of these were so far into the mountain that there ... night. Saw the Fourth of July fireworks LIVE at Boston's Hatch Shell

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious when I say blogging has become one of the most important parts of my life ... ://www.collegescholarships.org/blog/2007/10/08/vote-for-the-winner-of-the-2007-blogging-scholarship/. And if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  and alive in the context of your own experience? Being MIT, we weren ... would be ignoring the full potential of the web's interactivity. And MIT ... , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.

  

  The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last ... ! They're the guys behind Yellow Fever, Just a Nice Guy, and a bunch of ... watch the end of my video, WF's Philip Wang and Wesley Chen tell us why

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... Executive Director of the Poverty Action Lab. Bono (above) & Banerjee ... First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  The Bebras Computing Challenge (American homepage, international ... than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge. The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other ... --it's not like NYU where the bottom floor of your dorm might be a Chinese

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  remembering the specifics of each question got harder as more time passed. Towards the end of the semester, I started doing really well in 6.042 as we ... report that there was a median of 0 days between making the request and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most ... have discovered the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... again! Here at CTD, there are all sorts of ludicrous rules for the students and staff to follow (the title of this post being one - those

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... of the most vaguely negated sentences ever or what?), but this one was ... the undependable nature of our printer to announcements for parties to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... -eloquent me would end with the blog version of a mic drop, and then peace out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  The MIT School of Engineering is world renowned. Covering everything from ocean engineering to aeronautics, there's something exciting going on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... have frequented since I had the intention of applying to MIT, I suddenly

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... walked out of the room to talk with his supervisor), Stephen sitting across from me is doing some crazy-impressive mapping of the Whirlpool galaxy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  actually part of the plot and (b) the kids are just so much more intelligent and witty than their counterparts of yesteryear. But it's still... The ... after 72 hours of no sleeping or showering. Will post pictures of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  frequent flyer miles like nobody's business. Those are probably some of the ... stings, when I'm feeling sad, Arial (the font), the spelling of the word ... : The odds of achieving this are a little greater when you attend MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the ... of snow. Even better, right outside of the dorm where Siyi and I live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025