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  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied ... double majoring in Nuclear Engineering (Course 22) and Biology (Course 7) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically ... . The conference is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  university in Cambridge. "They do things there that haven't been done before ... tournament in four years. "A lot of people don't know it, but they offer more ... dorm hallway he would always find someone who would offer to help him. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  from two years ago. In increasing numbers, colleges are wooing their ... students' mailboxes, comes in various forms: everything from "likely" letters ... admissions offers for these schools won't be sent out for a long time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  -line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email ... actually pays off. In today's Doonesbury column, Alex comments on the Stata Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... theoretical devices! As Ian Bogost writes in Alien Phenomenology, Faced with ... necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind. Like a medieval

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  offers to email intro me to one that he knows. In that email though, he ... engineering at MIT and later a Masters in Public Health from Emory University ... to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  undergrad and graduate students alike receive their diplomas in Killian Court ... every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Blanco and Slocum. Professor Blanco was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it'll be out with the old routine and in with another. Already, some of us ... all weekend and wake up late in the day, then stay up late Sunday night

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction ... 't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... , associate professor of literature, shows in her new book, "Collaborations With

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... their rings and received their diplomas. You can join our virtual ... reminded me that being happy and healthy is the most important thing in life

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... . Completing all the sidequests means that you’ve 100%ed the game - in other ... campus one single time, I consistently have no idea what building I’m in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  me and dancing at graduation with a diploma in each hand! ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... in fundamental discoveries on just about any disease you can shake a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  Hockfield recently wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled A Model For ... concentrations. The university research community has embraced these challenges, with many faculty and students invested in finding energy solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science ... semester of biology, 2 electives in science, and 1 lab course? 1211. Do you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008