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  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of MIT. At the same time, though, I have come to realize that MIT's faculty ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven ... started to look at the other things that MIT had to offer and I came across

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... include my daily stop at JP Licks. I realized that over 12 weeks, I could ... how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  's room. Now the concept of spraying water at each other *indoors* seems ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away at your application essays, fretting over phrasing and wondering what to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  through the online reply form at MyMIT. You have three choices: tell us you're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There ... . 2. You actually need study skills at MIT. Okay, so this is kind of a ... instance. At the beginning of the semester, I dutifully sat at my desk in my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  floor of the student center, where I saw Petey. I remember staring at him ... real feel of -15 degrees. Just don’t do this one. Highly not recommended ... lot of afterschool programs at local high schools that I would like to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  : not the 1000-1500 degrees C of red-hot metal, but ~2400 degrees of white ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the ... from my high school at year 03. Am i too old to get the bachelor degree ... like that shade of Blue/Green, btw. Evan replied: Adam - different dorms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... laboratory of Drew Endy, now an assistant professor of bioengineering at ... last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  makes calling people back at home hard to schedule. i have memories of ... the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... number. At some point in high school, I had 100 digits of tau memorized

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab, one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007