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  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  before to finish three psets, so we were planning to keep each other awake. xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... . You just have to not join every single club/organization that you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... to create a "Think Local First" campaign^^ for this island. I’m working ... the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  doles out various awards and honors to those who've made significant contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this ... : Sam Kronick '10 Last Friday I had the chance to check out all three

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... uninteresting person, this translates to me rarely blogging. Stay tuned, though ... where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos ... ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... model, so we got to go outside and take measurements under cloudy skies ... . Yeesh. That night, I tried to work on a paper but couldn't. I also didn

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road, with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the ... Cambridge. Of course, as a general rule access to the roof of the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... 't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact ... almost everything moved and decided to call it a day. All that's left is

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue ... eventually they adjusted their wardrobes so as to prevent me from sobbing (look

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008