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  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for ... Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... crazy lately. Plus, at home, I never have to walk 15 minutes to work ... electricity. It has no right being this cold out if it's not going to snow." And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I ... year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... project. Almost immediately, I was admonished for not wearing close-toed ... footwear, and went back downstairs to see if I could help. I hauled wood for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  't have to leave this place for long... Friday June 6, 2008 began in the indoor track. All graduates (undergrads, Masters, and PhDs) were told to ... sappy reflective entry (that will come later!) Instead, I wanted to share

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  to taking for-credit classes, you can do for-credit practicum work with ... workshops for anyone looking to do a little work on the side or just learn ... in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  infeasible for Intel to scrap all of their existing machinery, which is ... To manufacture the silicon chips that run your computer, silicon ... Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor ... of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist ... introduced me to Chris '09, who apparently had been "really looking forward" to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... for you. Finally, one last thing to look at is the Emerson Scholarship ... , this can turn out to be a great deal for you if you're committed to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... to be exciting for me." So I tried other things. I sat through ... our teacher to host at our high school for the first time. I bought a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  . Shoutout to Kathleen for showing me the way!! Read about her use of it here ... of completion is the most satisfying way for me to feel like I ... , customize it in small chunks. I'm aiming to use Notion for the fall semester

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends ... resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself ... ’ve come to understand that the Lloyd clan has its own vernacular. For ... . Which brings me to my final note about IAP. Today, the application for the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  distances and times for the trip. Eventually, Sunday hit, and it was time to ... Hopkinton, we talk about the plan for the rest of the day—my goal is to start ... a small snack break to eat half an energy bar, my only food intake for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  is no help, and I am not compensating others for this. If I had to pay ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just ... that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005