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

  

  sorority. Laurie is currently in the process of applying to graduate schools ... CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of thin layer of insulating material called Kapton sandwiched between two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... idea is that students in England come out of high school (or Sixth Form ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... so busy learning ALL of the basics. (And with a field so broad, there ... . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... -MIT adventures, I have less to offer you. But! I still know undergrads! I bumped

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Program to support students in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts ... all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... waitlist is part of the college admissions process. Schools don't yet know if ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... organizing a dorm room. Sure, it can just be a bedspread and a poster of your

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  my plans are. It’s a fascinating revelation. Senior year of high school ... of high school. College forced me to take care of myself when I fucked ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France ... ), helping with public facility projects like schools - which is a hugeeeee ... can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  offered the explanation of his obsession with The Simpsons. I dare you to ... makes MIT one of the best schools ever. -:- ... one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  'll refer to as Ellie in high school. Ellie was the kind of girl who would ... Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  small school in North Carolina where the course of art history changed ... of art, the transparent front of the ICA offered a panorama of the ... before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... dorm. I joined a fraternity, but I live at iHouse, a specialized dorm of ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008