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

  

  About one million Americans have a form of inflammatory bowel disease ... liver disease. Unfortunately, the cause of IBD is unknown, though ... model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top ... lounge, where it was quickly claimed by Yuki '11. My room is beach themed ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  , check out this video from Vi Hart: (Did you know that Vi Hart is Khan ... 60 Minutes?) What do you think?  Are you sold on Tau?  Or are you a Pi ... As you know, MIT regular action admissions decisions will be released

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT ... WAAAAAAY a long time ago, Chris blogged about Ring Premiere. We ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  the Boston side, across the Charles from MIT. This is where we spent our past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path ... before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  stay organized while writing this post about Fireflies. Fireflies is a ... The writing process is different for every one of your favorite ... sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  ; The Vagina Monologues is a play about female sexuality and empowerment ... definitely fixable. so imma do it ASAP   see you in a bit :) ... i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  What are you writing your essays on? well I did one draft about a club ... are you most likely to ask on a campus tour?  what do you mean question singular bold of you to assume I would ever go on a campus tour

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... returned to Cambridge to join Harvard. She is one of a number of female ... . Last night: The Relay for Life “is a fun-filled overnight event designed

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Meal" and "Clammatology," can be seen below: Similarly, there was a ... is “a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries ... students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... crowds. If you're in the South Bay, I look forward to seeing you there! ... am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  Wars day! May the Fourth be with you!* * I know it's a tragic, horrible ... Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn't let a visit from the MV-22 ... is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and ... paper or musical staffs, so that you can actually use them for something

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  There's not a lot to say about this grey chair. Its desk is slightly ... 's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  sunny as it is, this never happened much. There were a few memorable days ... , and you get rowers who row, sleep, eat and watch tv. Repeat. It was a ... firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  ’re incredibly confused. You’ll also be assigned to a faculty advisor who can talk ... of letters) that suits your interest. This can be a rather difficult ... Course 20 is an awesome option. If you want to engineer proteins, learning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  - Are you okay? After we came to the mutual realization that there was ... this is a lot of big talk for someone who has barely spent 24 hours here ... was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025