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  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I ... dropped out some classes at the end of a semester because they took too many ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  I was introducing myself at dinner I said I was from Boston and one of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... the validity of the test. More on this over the coming year... At this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of ... of sleep, something you'll learn to live on at MIT. 3) It's harder to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to ... !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  frozen for a couple months of the year. So I grabbed the opportunity at MIT ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  work? 1. Gaze in wonder at the 600+ works of art at the Student Loan Art ... . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... that when I look at it, I can find some form of enjoyment in the visual

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  about. Especially for a car guy. Espresso at 8 am: I'm awake. Sounds of ... sound of an F1 car testing at the nearby Fiorano track. Familiar town ... and goals of our projects and our way of thinking and working at Smart

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... hard, but at the same time, I'm real proud of him." ... Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  . It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue ... according to one of the workers at OSG, that means I tried really, really hard ... for employee morale here at admissions. I can sort of see what he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  during my lunch hour at the Z center this summer. Clary Clish, director of the Metabolite Profiling Initiative at the Broad Institute here at MIT ... been working since 2008 in the rapidly growing field of metabolomics

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... weather. I bought a math textbook and a book of french poetry at a used ... to NYC to spend a couple of days at our respective homes. [carousel

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  worried about) sort of had ideas of studying chemistry at first, but then ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was ... around and looked at plants all day, read a lot of books. basically I loved

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I ... , I've managed to make plenty of mistakes - but at the same time, each ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007