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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  Speaking of deadlines coming up really soon, the blogging scholarship ... . This week was pretty crazy - due the combination of the some illness and ... more of this to come later, but for now, thank you so much for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground ... jump! Wheeeee The goal of our session was to get our legs over the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  where they have a bunch of bands come bring down the house at the lovely cost of $0 for all the students. This year's lineup included: Chicken ... become the greatest band of all time (well, not quite) but they did make a

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at MIT. ...This might have also been possibly one of the best lectures I ... kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  of the chemistry department and Jamie Lewis Keith of the Environmental Programs Office, received an EPA grant of $30,000. Read the whole article here Great job to Kendra, who "developed much of the project content

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... are unfortunately not placed on the same tier of importance, even though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  frequent flyer miles like nobody's business. Those are probably some of the ... stings, when I'm feeling sad, Arial (the font), the spelling of the word ... : The odds of achieving this are a little greater when you attend MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... coded this with the Python version of Drake, which can be used for

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world

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

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  have to experience the torture of filling out infinite applications again ... of stress from this job-hunt season. In just under 4 weeks, all the ... culmination of the first three years’ hard work is going up against the dice of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  ="residence exploration, a ton of events during orientation week where frosh explore the ... one of the East Campus events, I learned how to use an electric drill ... kinda hard; a lot of the slots were full), and then went. The training

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time ... , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more ... from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the ... box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... eye on scientific breakthroughs of the past decade or so: As a member of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... Anna H. '14, the MIT blogger, spend the weekend of Jan 13-15 doing? Your ... to the site, and but the blinding array of colors with which she color

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  computer, not on the runway...), equations, whoa science is actually kind of weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid-flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... to be sending several up several prayers during the course of this ... wake-up alarms - all very loud. To offset the impending stress of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012