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  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... that shuttle the tray through a battery of tests (pictures below!) Out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  -shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns ... , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the Harvard Bridge. As I approached the threshold of drowning, I flinched away

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  home countries of rock bands the Scorpions ("Rock You Like a Hurricane ... 'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... on the right side of the road after a few blocks. There are also quite ... of the dorms don't have air conditioning kind of freaks me out. are the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  , you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there ... 't remember what the 5 wits were. Fantasy, who loved to dream of castles and crowns. Estimation, who was great at estimating the amount of pizza she

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions ... of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed ... families will go to ensure the lifelong success of their sons and daughters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via the Globe:  One of the jokesters — they cheekily call themselves “hackers” — reached

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... , the cloud forecast was looking gloomy all month and up to the morning of ... and gray contours of satellite weather imagery and learning the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  have the dangerous dual combination of both being full of awesome project ... 's got a blog of her own, The Fullerene Incident, where she documents her creations and adventures: personal favorite posts of mine include The 21

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a ... design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup ... midst of running the first of three modeling workshops for everyone that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau ... let the streetlights ricochet like bullets through the thick thrill of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... fourth most emailed story of the day -- maybe people really do care about education and the future of this country. Of course, I have some minor and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the ... examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of ... because of its incredible teacher, Professor Don Sadoway) 21L.011: The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  go home, by which I mean the fall of 1993 - smoking cigarettes under ... couldn't have lasted, of course, and it didn't. As the graffitied Walt ... this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  While the period known as "End of term" certainly brings finals ... these, including the last 3.091 lecture (described here by Kevin), all of ... of campus, and ended up with some great wine glasses at the end. Nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... rate), and the debate is one of the few parts of the process that I ... not fond of my green hair). ;) It's from the previous year's UAP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  , is one of the things that keeps everybody laughing through the pain that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... store for the purpose of providing discounts. The three of us waited ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011