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  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  ago. People born on 18 August 2008 are walking and talking all over the ... . Feeling old also got me reflecting on those 19 Junes, Julys, and Augusts*. I ... those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... to refrain from the obvious commentary on the drive through Iowa-I come ... there. Except to say that the radio station we were listening to on our

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade ... , working on an application that eventually quadrupled the sampling rate for ... first ripples. Outside of the McDonald's on Massachusetts Avenue stood

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than ... us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of ... sign on, you won't regret the journey :D THURSDAY, 9.30-midnight

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... 17th. Yes, that means that while you’re all on campus not sleeping and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  is easy. Generally, you just sign on to the MIT MUN mailing list, and ... "sophomore"! Although I prided myself on not caving into the pressure of ... Elective Credit for extra AP exams that are on this list, so you need 4 extra

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to ... go out to the suburbs for that) and wandering on sidewalks for hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which ... . She began working on two projects: studying how neurons communicate with ... mechanisms which control anxiety. To do this, she performs brain surgery on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  featured on the news, but I didn’t really understand that there was a ... would have to create a module based on this paper by writing introductory ... who was willing to work with me on the module. I wanted to find someone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... attention when it was introduced in 2005. It was featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, Jay Leno, and even on Jeopardy. What is Clocky

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... remember to leave Adam a shopping list, so he could go to the store on his ... synaptic cleft and bind to receptors on the outside of the postsynaptic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  about the contest description on Bryan's blog. The four years at MIT are ... subsequent months are spent on engineering and building. It's an amazing ... on words on the Minotaur, the ancient Greek half-bull half-man (meant

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... row, has sort of worn down on my self esteem over the years. But this is ... deal with this particular drain on my self esteem. So what is this post

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  have any questions. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of the ... foremost resource on “how to MIT.” Actually get to know us—first impressions ... ’d stand behind them and learn little. But as the semester went on, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  shorter wait time on popular books! Here’s my reading list for this year ... --ambitious, since I’m leaving for Ethiopia on August 6th and was in China until June ... ’t move from the couch much. Here are my thoughts on the books I’ve read so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  with teaching the class, but this year I’ve been on my own. MIT Hillel ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... IAP in a nutshell! Hebrew students hard at work on their vocab

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... oz., depending on the cook), reheating homemade cooking experiments from last weekend (1-10 units of bragging rights per 16 oz., depending on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  'll see an update on this blog. Sloanapplicant wrote, "Would you say that ... mail all decisions on the same day, and we prefer for all applicants to ... final until they go out the door of the admissions office on the day we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  on. Heavy coursework. Abundant extracurriculars. Boston festivities ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can ... challenge, and I still want one. But I want to focus on learning how to solve

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024