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• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... difficult weeks in a row when you know there's a break coming up, no matter

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I've pasted some excerpts from the UEA email in italics.) The complimentary ... ?" Q: What does an economist do? A: A lot in the short run, which amounts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15 ... (the basement, in this case), and the last two digits give the room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go ... ago, so he's aquajogging in the Z-center until it's back in running

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned ... the DNA into the nucleus, which Sid achieved by encapsulating the DNA in ... DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the ... Th2, which can be induced by different pathogens and are exhibited in ... created a mouse model for the Th2 form of IBD by creating a Th2 response in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was finally completed in 1994 after decades of blunders in planning, and at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world ... rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my ... into the project has been very valuable. In a nutshell, what our

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics ... minimizes geography in formation of rich vs. poor nations By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | June 15, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Daron Acemoglu grew up in Turkey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy). Taiwan cafe in Boston's Chinatown. Soup dumplings are delicious and fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  'd imagine -- and sometimes, that picture in your head is a bit off -- like ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was ... last fall on the road (so do you). Even then, the image in your head

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... time in more than a week. Yes, the regular action selection committee for ... are no "mistakes," and that everything is appropriately considered. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick ... seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  E-3 (admissions summary) card: I: We have your Interview in your ... interview in your folder. We understand that geography can be hard, so we ... or an email/phone call), but we don't have an interview report in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... process, so I feel I should remind folks that P(big envelope in December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action, with decisions released

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year ... 've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  . The Fall Career Fair happened in September, and I didn’t really actively ... first-years, dropped off my resume in several places, and filled out interest forms. But mostly I just collected free stuff. Later in the year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020