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  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that ... Society, AWS, Zeta Beta Tau, and he is a Discover Biology FPOP Coordinator

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is ... (in MechE!) from MIT in 1984 and the book is about his educational ... . The program is called “getfit@mit” and it is a 12-week, team

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  authorship on a paper that is currently in about ten different files on my jump ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, with discussions of how policy implementation is influenced by ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  's the story of how I learned to use a solder wick, which is a magical sort ... work. I applied to this UROP because I wanted to work in a Real Science ... it means working with hot things and metal (which is a big improvement

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel ... is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that ... that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... course obliged, because she is just that cool. "How did you get involved

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this ... a lot of things I haven't had as much time for during college, including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in ... of a cinnamon roll person anyway. UAG (in which Ceri attempts to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... , you can imagine how much running up and down this involved. :) That

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only ... in The Waiting Room that many EA admits have been wondering how they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office ... Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... into How to Stage a Revolution, a fairly popular class. Obviously you don

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  ;ll see you application. A common problem is typing in too much and ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose ... both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  though much of the time that I’m actually in Tucson, all I notice is the ... again. “How do you find jobs that are useful?” This is a question I ... , in a much more meandering way, and she mentioned several start-up job

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  Europe Friday -- Nothing much planned, just hanging out in my dorm room, to ... chocolate confiscated. Settle in for a drive home with Sam's Mom, eat some ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the ... of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... not alone in feeling this. It never truly hit my until just a few weeks

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  , which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size ... seeing. 40 people in a town of 544 in Montana, running a fashion show and having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013