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  Tour of Novartis

  

  when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... -wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major ... antifungal agent that the commercial is promoting is called, Lamisil, and it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  surprised that I like this class! The content is much more intuitive to me ... have been, since I applied to MIT as a Course 20, but this is the first ... pipetting, so I was a bit nervous at first. I really had to force myself the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation ... teams she's on) and she plays whenever she has the chance. She is also a ... . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... is so worth it to take a few extra seconds and truly understand what ... greatest strengths of lab work is the fact that there are often established

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... went on to win the contest. I’m not jealous. Not at all. I think this is ... , no matter how much you cut into your Hamilton time, there is always a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  grown and shaved full-length two beards, and that reason is called the truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy ... Saturday. I sort of forgot that MIT is hard, as I tend to do, and then after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the ... today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our ... to help advise creative projects in the office and serve as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm ... -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when ... a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA ... I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly. What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... stories to go along with these people, and I can say that meeting and ... to sharing with others some of the experiences I have had in India and

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... paddles are so small, and I keep missing! The solution, obviously, is to ... , ordered a water boba, setting off a microtrend to the amusement and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... in the snow in Killian Court. This year, it was a completely different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... . The memorial is composed of 32 solid blocks of granite that form a five ... and killed on April 18, 2013, the Collier Memorial marks the site with a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... . There will be much more to say about the reading process as November ... : ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  current roommate is also temporary, although you will get a chance to keep ... language halls) was completely random. There's going to be a concert here in ... rooms you have right now are completely temporary and you do not have the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small ... fundraising scheme, click here to read it. Help them raise the $30 million that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  photographer and managed to convince me that the photos at the end make the show ... , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... there that I haven't seen yet, so if you really want to complicate things

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  option. There is no need to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No. How ... applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to ... , and how many we wish to take from the waitlist. How many people will

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014