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  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  Cancer Research, and in November, CCR director Tyler Jacks shared the 2005 ... -cancer drugs produced by molecular medicine--Herceptin, approved by the FDA in 1998; and Gleevec, approved in 2001. Nobel Prize-winning work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  with that? It is true that we have not utilized the waitlist in the past ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past three years); other years, we underpredict (as in the several years before

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

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  processed. Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through the 2A program, and ... simultaneously process millions of parts in a given factory. Christina's research

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... we're investigating some interesting topics in my intercultural

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...what the most awkward thing in the whole entire ... running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... -student interaction? While sitting in 10.37: Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  thinking in biomechanics in thei increasingly complex interdisciplinary ... flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  detect some of this excitement in my entry. In seventh grade I learned from ... essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic ... . Later in the week, our housemasters Roe and Bronwyn, both of whom have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they ... excellence in teaching, with a focus on creating experiential learning ... ) that assist in assessment, administration and content management. Okay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... 'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the chance to go to games one and two in Chicago this past weekend with my

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... flip in the air instead of a twist.   Wrote two essays. I ... .31 (Topics in Mammalian Biology), five for 21A.260 (Embodiment and the Senses

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM, got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my ... them, picturing hacks that had happened on those buildings in the last

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  .C., but my meeting was actually in Orange County (well, Orlando/Winter Park, Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... of Educational Counselors (ECs) in attendance: 8 Number of questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... follow her around as a living fashion accessory. Her inspiration in this endeavor was apparently the girls who hang out in the Harajuku shopping

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to ... ]. In addition, we require [two] SAT II Subject Tests: one in math (level 1 (Ic) or 2 (IIc)) [and] one in science (physics, chemistry, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005