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  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made ... DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach ... incorporated into the cell, the sphere degrades, releases the DNA, and then the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to painful cramping, chronic diarrhea, and reduced appetite. As if the symptoms weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and ... , Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The class looks at moral and social questions concerning the human experience

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... morning starts with 9.26 Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are ... desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... and 75 units last semester and as a result spent April and May in a ... other MIT students and see more almost every weekend, there are some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  With Hurricane Wilma bearing down on Florida, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our minds, and the early action deadline about a week away, I figure this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living to Create And why I am the things I make.

  

  These past two years, I’ve unfortunately made a grave and dire ... my outlet for sharing my experiences and ideas with the world. I love to build. I love to design. And I love to organize. There is so much

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  IT’S SNOWING a bit of whimsy during finals week

  

  "] stata center (center) and building 68 (right)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_120946" align="aligncenter" width="300"] charles river and boston skyline ... ="attachment_120941" align="aligncenter" width="300"] stata center (foreground) and

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... weather machine, and even got a very melty dusting a couple days ago ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of ... sick and the world changed. this, and many things, and other reasons that i find harder to talk about, have changed me and my relationship to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... it's raining and thin if it isn't, and blocks are also colored

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately, we can’t admit everyone. If your decision was ... without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present ... , here, here, and most recently here and here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and ...  [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note="please be nice to them ... wait. You can watch Ellen and me fly around campus trying to avoid robots

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  The admissions process develops seasonally and repeats cyclically ... , the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially because when it does, it breaks over us, and our office is deluged with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  This past weekend I was somewhere between flying and drowning. Finals ... and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a ... break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  POLYMERS and CATS." Really. All I want to do is have my cat (and maybe another one or two... and a dog and a hamster...), work with polymers, and ... different industries and disciplines. But that's not it. Life is hard. You

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  . Life has been... interesting the last few months and I'll blog about ... treasures at and around MIT and puts them in the limelight. The first hidden ... and their cousin knows about the pistol classes and the Pirate's License

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... want, which in most cases involves your favorite t-shirt and jeans, and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013