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

  

  surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a ... triple-GEMs has a lot of fascinating applications. The application that I ... , take Special Relativity (8.20) to find out how to travel into the future

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway!  Presently, I’m sitting here on Saturday night (well I guess it ... ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter wonderland as I'm reading applications today, and it makes me feel calm, very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  fast,’ I said back, “How about a daylong pilgrimage to MIT to see three ... At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... stacked alongside smoking test tubes. I was sipping a drink and taking it

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  -fats. See how much time I saved you on the treadmill? Be sure that you can use ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical ... over an hour." "Okay." said I, shut the door, rectified the problem, and snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let ... excitement when I saw a poster advertising her upcoming MIT visit, which was sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I don't know why that deserved an exclamation point. Probably because I ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT’s Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I ... , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... I think I sunk a bit too deeply into the Institute these past few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... breast cancer, or maybe it's because I’m reading this great Pulitzer Prize winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Just the other rainy spring day when I was making my way across ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string. String? Looking up, I made my way past large equipment

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  angular momentum equations until I get the variables I want. We'll see how ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... slipping? I've played with my tablet and written up the answers nice and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish ... 's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 ... waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with ... The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15. She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

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

  

  on optical frequency combs, which she describes as "so cool." Sadly, I can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... ," followed by what I'm sure will be a nice reception with the students. Ian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007