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  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... or turn in important forms on a computer or something, but then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... 's Crew, and did Navy ROTC. In her preflight interview, Stefanyshyn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  'm just a girl working in a bakery.) I've lived in California all my life, where it's okay that I wear t-shirts and flip flops in December. When it ... body in something other than breathable cotton. Despite always living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  known as the college application process. In some ways this entry ... I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you will not hesitate to throw your two cents in to any and all conversations

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the ... legacy applicants; MIT doesn't.) MIT romance I met Adam in September of my

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

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  short day which included transfecting some rat hippocampal neurons in ... ate my soup and sandwich outside in Kendall Square while reading a book ... in the City" on my iPod. There is basically nothing better than walking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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