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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... self. I should have been in Lobby 7 making sure she coughed loudly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... despaired, since I wasn't quite sure whether it would turn into a triple ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  and who works in/around the field of interactive fiction. I think it ... Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms ... -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... a week in Niagara Falls. I enjoy spending time with my sisters, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  faculty and administration in the cooperative manner I described in “Colors ... accordingly, and student feedback was still important. I held “Office hours” in ... process.” I was certain folks in the room cared about our concerns and took

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of ... anything in particular) it was 8:45am and I decided to make one last break for the bathroom. I was in the last group allowed to use the facilities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  , and I hope you'll feel free to keep in touch and talk about all the ... ? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6 ... audio engaging and dynamic, I would give an actual lecture - replete with ... lectures. In support of this, we created a monitoring system that would let

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also ... 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Do you have cheerleaders? This, I guess, is ... ) had to say about it: I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  wrote when I was seven: Seen in Winter Never Summer Oh, he's melting ... marching band in its full 14-member glory. I think in total we have about 20 ... , and not only would I never get sick of it, I would enjoy it even more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  . (graphics/layout). I decided it would be a good time to start making (or ... social medias So much time In summary, an awesome model-pretty-maker/organizer, Annie L. '15, a photographer, Raeez L. '14, and I set out to accomplish

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  host a summit for all the recipients. In May, I got an e-mail from one of ... asked if any of us (some other alums and I) would be interested. Um. Yes ... to give me a helicopter ride if I ever find myself in San Diego. We did

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... for majors, in terms of FOOD - but it's still happening for me; I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes ... way) was the most joy I’ve had while writing in a long time. 2113

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some time and read it, you won't regret it: The Prodigy Puzzle I'm glad the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... time just stops. I've been in this mile for hours. But here and there, I ... I didn't say there wasn't any homework. Every week, several GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005