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  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and liver disease. Unfortunately, the cause of IBD is unknown, though

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  couldn't help but think of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. Fenway, I think, is ... . A Red Sox game will be one of the highlights of my MIT 5 Year Reunion, coming up in just a few weeks (can you believe it?). The weekend of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors ... Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of ... Costa Rica over spring break, amazing upperclassmen that I've had the ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... plain sad. Anyway, three full weeks of the Spring Semester have sped away

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what ... of their evaluation of the report, and testified during a related

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  one of their specialties) was even better than advertised. Then the Red ... 's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you ... CourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions ... Kevin really fit the "geek" image that they're going for. I, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of ... voices murmur and where you feel comfort despite the lack of sight. That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected ... ... When the creative process of destruction was complete, we took pictures for the blogs. Then it took me two years to write the post. Half of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  lot of trouble getting through. It really looked like the whole town ... ... Explosions, yay! And the bonfire, of course. Tea, coffee, and chips ... Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  ) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which is in the northeast corner of the nation. Last January's D-Lab Zambia group installed solar panels on the roof of Mwape's primary school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of ... care of themselves, but the feeling persisted. The overall situation ... into the upper echelons of campus administration, and in the week before

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

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have ... Playsentations, the final Toy Design hoorah where all of the groups present their ... group. I had one of the two speaking roles so I, theoretically, had my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events--skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... that have long divided the world, being the source of almost every battle, economic downturn, and cataclysmic natural event (including the extinction of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small ... the collegiate success of students from small towns and rural ... country and around the world. Now, as a founding member institution of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter ... through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues ... did not pick myself. Most of the story proceeds through a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022