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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... !) At 9, we opened up our doors to everyone. I saw a bunch of friends, old ... event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  by side, and coming in and out of the laboratory at all hours of the ... spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  just 6 units, which is half the units of an average class at MIT, and ... schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but looking back at old blogs, I quickly realized that I’ve never posted my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of ... Bad Ideas Weekend at the end of January. Or go to my event. It involves ... . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  My dear former floormate Shannon '05 (who's still at MIT pursuing her Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  an onsite visit at a local biopharmaceutical company with a group of ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... often sold at super low Ohio-level prices. Other types of food are pretty

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  . It would be somewhat forgivable if these minor wounds were a result of ... between an absurd sense of calm and an overwhelming sense of panic. I've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  wafers must undergo repeated cycles of deposition, patterning, implantation of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon must be processed using the same set of machinery several times. This

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  few doubles games with the regular group of players, i'm back at my desk ... because i have limited access to a lot of things, but at the same time it ... the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  live some life at MIT without putting all of it online, so it all worked ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get ... good bit of traveling around Japan - hopped on stones over the pond at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  're moving through it at a blistering pace, but at least part of me enjoys the ... stagnant though (and a couple of my friends were also taking Spanish at that ... ="the humanities? at my institute of technology? it's more likely than you think

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  , at the moment, and I miss the spontaneity of last semester. I honestly ... go to singing lessons and get better at fingerpicking songs instead of ... A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... several types of coins in both currencies, in case the toll booth at the ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014