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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... of the publication of his new book (!!!), Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a ... unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams...the ... - and I'm incredibly excited to be a part (however small) of the new Institute. To get into the specifics, I'll be working with Professor of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... of your character that also explains your character's goals for the ... character belongs to, and what the goals of those groups are. You may also

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  , and that's definitely been reflected in some of the music I've been ... besides music, I've also had the opportunity to take a ton of awesome photos ... evening we went out on to the Mass Ave. bridge and shot a bunch of photos of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon ... of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real life. So I asked Marisa, one of the Admissions Counselors (recent MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest ... stupider. The lectures are a lot of fun while generally the recitations are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance ... Pot, on Pier 57. The cool half of the group got a meal that requires the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend ... , and even more debauchery than that of its forebearers. Throughout the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general ... sleeping lots blogging :) Blog entries I want to write: recap of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... additional lectures The World’s Numerical Recipe, The Origins of Mass and the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... , Boston Marathon! Speaking of which...Last year, I watched the marathon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application ... about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. Although you may ... member of our community the ability and passion to work collaboratively for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015