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  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  hello! i'm creating a podcast. the tentative name for the podcast is ... the talks happen in my room, which is room 251. the general goal is to ... [annotation note="an independent living group."]Pika[/annotation] and is a part

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  the cool cars tomorrow. Did you know that a 10000 word paper is really ... Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , feel a bit less homesick. Butterstick's human, Shannon, is a Residential

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali ... living tissue, but Khademhosseini’s work is unique in its “

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in ... your favorite charity with a simple tweet. B.S. in Material Science and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  confuse your audience. It is a 1998 Fender American Precision Deluxe, black ... finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas ... Jazz (Ben has a Fender Jazz bass). In addition to the standard split

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... is a record number. With so many excellent applicants this year, it ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  ; etc. In short, this is for you to get a sense of some seniors ... 'll profile a senior each day, each an amazing person in their own right. The ... Today begins a weeklong event at MIT called Senior Week. During

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  very impressive and set up in a crowded, dark attic. This picture is more ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big ... you, even though my favorite meal in the world is chicken and waffles

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... the best Gizmoball game in Fall 2005, he completed a competitive ... treadle-powered irrigation pumps in Sudan, where water scarcity is believed

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... Professor Ian Hunter (my UROP is in his lab!) in 3-370. 5:30-7:00 PM: Lecture ... -renown neurosurgeon Rolando del Maestro, followed by a talk entitled "Progress in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... Hurricane Harbor, the water park where we swam amidst 12 year olds in a wave

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  was Enric Rovira. He's a master chocolatier in Barcelona, who is well ... tempered in different ways (one is glossier than the other). All in all, a ... outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  ; Basically, the drug Crixivan ® is used to combat HIV, but it is a very ... to perform a critical step in the production process. By inserting a ... firehose-survivors was Ana Posada. Ana, a Biology major from Lawrenceville

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  love his music. Joey Perricone is a sophomore studying physics and ... for 'Our Last Night'-- a post-hardcore band Joey was deeply involved in ... of people in cities around the Northeast. Joey faced a tough choice in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... Array (of radio telescopes) in New Mexico. This is what the Whirlpool ... now. Requisite background information: his research project is to model

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt seemed like a good idea at the time, but the results were sparse. The two ... --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually modeled after a legendary MIT class in mechanical engineering, 2.007, which ... been a core course in mechanical engineering at MIT. Our own Dean of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016