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  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  -MIT organizations too. What will dorm life be like? I don't know where I'll fit in ... longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... telethon last year, his face fell and he plaintively said, "Anyone can go? I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  'm optimistic. If you're the guy mentioned in this blog entry, I was so shocked ... something and let me know. I can introduce you to Mitra. ... . Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire ... gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... and giving somebody my seat, but I'm in the middle of the last row and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  working on taking this invention into the clinic, where it can be used to ... reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... called Boston the “Academic Hollywood,” where stars in every field could be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  's where Stride comes in: it's a sleek, ergonomic, and automatic option that ... . Roger has a built-in microphone and earbuds so that you can communicate ... wheelchair that can fully deploy in under ten seconds. Burt, a power wheelchair

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  physically moving parts in this project, thankfully (I’ve learned my lesson ... components in place, I finally had a fully functional system: https ... effects, but that’s where I ran into my second problem – the microcontroller

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  picked up in England) and last but not least, the place where the structure of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely ... , again & again & again   I awaken, enclosed in a ... and blossom in such a short period of time. Now, I see that my skin is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he ... was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... welcome my first final review in 4.112 (Integrated Architecture Studio). I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm enthusiastic about food nonetheless. On a scale from 1-10, where 1 ... , I was fixing for a crepe late last week and strolled in to Sebastians ...  Breakfast Tour in Boston this week, if I have the time - but I think I missed out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on ... need, exactly where you want to look in the sky, what frequency you want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but ... -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few ... was a little unfortunate, but I can't really complain when I was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and ... been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... maybe we can benefit from focusing on that instead. 03/14/2015 So I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have ... bit of faith and optimism can go a long way. 4. I've tried my hardest

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  the comfort of a thriving campus community, where everyone I know lives ... laughter] But how can it be deep, we're only in two dimensions. [pause again ... ++? I'm scared. Then again, there's no way this can be as hard as junior

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011