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  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  fill in the gaps =) I still can’t believe that they scheduled these ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... Nobel Peace prize. I can’t wait! P.S. Thanks for the Brokaw pict, Bryan

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  I can talk about my job at Los Alamos, which segued into what my plans ... , don't discuss odds with MIT kids. I estimated them to be about 1 in 10 ... everywhere, but Snively's wrote it up in his blog, so I won't bother repeating

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... 't worry!" it says. "I'll save you! Stop going to class so that you can do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland ... -to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... place running. I have, in the past, heard of MIT's administration ... the numbers around how money at MIT works can be found in the recently

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts in the past: People often ask me, "How do I stand out ... doesnt, rewrite it until it does (because if your friends can't see you in ... forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  August. I was sitting in Killian Court alone. The sun was sharp ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  physically moving parts in this project, thankfully (I’ve learned my lesson ... components in place, I finally had a fully functional system: https ... ’s performance. In the end, I created an algorithm that reduced the rendering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community ... breakfast. I am majoring in Course 20 (biological engineering) and could not ... . on the lacrosse team :)) I am also minoring in German and really

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in ... salad. True story: I once failed a calculus quiz in high school because I ... beer actually replaces the yeast in ordinary quick breads.) I am told

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  middle of term can be just like any other week, or they can be ridiculous. I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip ... you can easily furnish your dorm room with exquisite, handcrafted

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect when I got here. Sara had mentioned the play in class our first week, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle ... geothermal energy. No, actually, I have no idea why he keeps this in lab. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident ... caulk, I fill in a couple of suspiciously mouse sized holes with the same

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  . Nothing gold can stay. etc. etc. etc.  We obviously couldn’t leave without one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... said. In the next few days, we’ll be filling the blogs up with our last

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading ... Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking ... ; In the main, we are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can ... of MIT students are MIT students.   Admissions officers can write

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should ... England to New Zealand and many places in between. We can't wait to welcome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017