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  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  of her language skills to use while conducting research at CERN. ... In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  : A - Schedule At the very beginning of the year, we drew up a weekly ... . (It's also kind of cool to look at it as a chart of what times students ... tick mark is 25 cents, and at the end of the year, we're going to have an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news ... I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  period of two and a half months. * There are at least 14 different memes ... 't show up until we finally get a hold of a tripod at the end.) See if you ... Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  , and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the talented people who applied. If Blogger selection was any indication of what ... year. That's just as well since Chris Peterson has a hatred of LOLcats

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  need to fax materials at this point. Use traditional methods of ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... at MIT. As students, we tend to forget that looking people in the eyes ... people say is important. All of these skills are crucial when wooing the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  formal swaps. We had our first CME study break at Downing College. Lots of ... First off a few notes of clarification. CME stands for Cambridge ... really amazing MIT students. Not all of us knew each other before we came

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me crazy lately. Plus, at home, I never have to walk 15 minutes to work ... may be hard to tell from the picture, but that's a minimum of two inches

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  togetherness, that at the most basic level, you're all going through a rite of ... I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... admissions process. Presumably, there are tens of thousands of students out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  asked about the availability of some other thickness, there is, at this ... stay closed at 360 rpm. Now, also note that the designs of the Parafilm ... reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  rental (Sorry, that excludes Valley of the Dolls) - You must have at least ... APPLICATION PROCESS, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR! I need a big favor! I am up ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... movies that I love and some that I always swear to rent next time I'm at the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  course that instantly earned a spot at the top of my “101 Greatest Science ... guide sort of pointed at the plastic cow and said, “MIT has a fun and ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes ... ![/caption] At a high level, 2.004 introduces the analysis and control of open and ... temperature of a room. If we want to be at 67°F but our room is currently at 70

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG Friday Luncheon. A close friend of ESG's 8.012/8.022 Professor Paola, he ... ceased to amaze. But at this point I imagine you're anxious to actually

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... their waitlists. Large waitlist movement at a few schools has ripple effects, requiring longer waitlists at many colleges this year. We're glad

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008