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  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, must be for having not one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more ... semester in her blog, and since Mitra is just so cool, those classes that also appear in my list will be marked with an (M). Here are the classes

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... recommend trying again next summer. I got in as a sophomore, the second time I ... sprites and an undiagnosed dark force. Right now he lives in East Campus. He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... endeavors have included sitting in on Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler ... exhibit. We went to Litchballett (literally, ‘light ballet’ in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... the few women in the field. At a vendor meeting where engineers were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... dozen other MIT students in South Wales, I was the only MIT student in ... train back from a day trip in Liverpool. Then I painted a few scenes while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... Gmail inbox was already filling up with promises of “FREE FOOD” in return ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  coming up in April (sign up now if you haven’t already)! We know you ... exciting opportunities for Admitted Students coming up in cities around the ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  with a faint, delayed crackle. Most nights, this summit was shrouded in ... ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I ... currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  three months. I've lived in Burton Conner since freshman year. BC residents are not enrolled in the MIT Dining Meal Plan, but we are blessed ... eateries and La Verdes convenience store in the Student Center, a three

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  learnt them in England, from British people.) These words are among the ... “the other Cambridge” *mysterious music ensues* Yes, Cambridge in ... picked up in England) and last but not least, the place where the structure

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012