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  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to ... myself back in the auditorium listening to the final round of presentations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  's Ring Premiere to get an idea of what I'm talking about. There are some ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  got that right), AND I'm trying to do more new things in college ... other homework and trying to get this up before midnight, which prevented ... also get cold and rainy and cause n00bish vloggers to wince at the camera

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several ... other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and ... identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of literature and learn how I can meld my interests to do something that will make

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  looked SO interesting. In addition to these papers, we had other assigned ... having to read Powers' ATLA blog in class, which I thought was a cool ... of hers. She described to me how it was the first band she remembered

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the ... 're willing to invest. Building numbers weave in and out like needle and thread

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to ... , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  ’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... to us. In high school, we were obsessed with Ina Garten from Food ... -December. Yesterday, we thought to ourselves, “so what should we blog about now

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... getting four half-gallon tubs of ice cream and happening to come across a

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... wanted to get involved with research and being a teaching assistant early. I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007