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• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since ... 't get IAP off), I will organize my entry more than I ever have before ... blogging was not always this fancy -- I put my Course 14 skills to good use

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... us banded together and decided on our goals: to have as much fun as physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to encourage student-faculty interaction.) My friend Varsha '07 and I decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  stereotypical breakup thing to do. But I got my second lobes done. I plan to get ... just like, relieving to get their input and tell people about my problems ... just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  mission too. I hope you get a chance to see it soon.   ... now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  also really enjoy cooking with other people since usually I get to make a ... , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around to actually making full posts about these things — my to-do list app ... 'll get to see a musical again, but Hadestown was so. good. Aaa. The Boston

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  . Get some ice cream. Whatever. Use a countdown app to countdown the ... stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people ... Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the fame or fortune to allow them them get a job, situation, or ... turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  pre- high school days, skip down to Summer 13 (the numbers correspond to my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  get to know the tools that they'll be working with later on, but I think ... Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  secure in getting my stuff done now that I know I have enough time to do it ... MIT and I get to do things I love and find meaning in all day long ... A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023