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  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... they work. Vivek Venkatachalam, a Senior in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny, warm, and breezy 9 months a year in Boston, just like in Southern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  . Unfortunately, I got back from a 60 mile bike journey throughout Vermont and New ... myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... started biking. Well, now my laptop is toast and I'm having immense

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  cross-register with Harvard undergraduate courses, because MIT and Harvard ... MIT's schedule and Harvard's schedule are pretty much the same (MIT and ... between MIT and Harvard, as Harvard is contemplating moving to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the ... the festivities that Mitra did, and the "MIT celebrity"-served midnight breakfast, starring President Susan Hockfield and Dean of Admissions Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward. Some of you may feel happy to ... have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again. We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even ... blogs and our whole process. Remember that you will survive, even

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that ... ’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and ... blogs and didn’t have too much content left in me. Next semester, I’ll be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  supervisor, past mentors, and other people whose advice I value, I decided to ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... MIT’s early action round. And today, I’m [annotation note="it's due

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those ... over blue examination booklets, and stops at me scribbling away at my ... this feeling (that I can't quite pin down), and I say that I love it or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  during the summer!!   dance last IAP, I was dancing and ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... incredible experiences of my life and I cannot WAIT for the next one. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student." I had just finished my FPOP, started making new friends, and decided ... remotely. I've heard your sadness, disappointment, and anxieties about this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... entire month’s worth of pain and exhaustion and fear came bubbling up ... entire life, and I was angry about all of it. I’m never angry. I took a box

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

    Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it ... in the MCU (and is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury), seemed to ... , including tributes to Batman, LOTR, and R2D2. If you're unfamiliar with the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... psetting in as well, and the black markers indicate places that are limited access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it ... ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other ... , artists, actors, weebs, gamers, bakers, builders, DnD(ers?), and so many

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  came back, and I wished city sounds would drown out their mating snaps. During the day, the sky here is a plain blue and the houses are beige. The ... showers the fences with a high-pressure hose, and it confuses me. Why clean

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 24. And as usual, we are very excited about the students we have admitted, and often chagrined

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017