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  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... can also be full of unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... time to nourish yourself, it can also be full of unexpected growth. We

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the implementation of this order is still under review, its prospect has caused a lot of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  MIT and Boston are in the middle of the actual Snowpocalypse, so what better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so, I present you with over thirty pictures of KITTENS! (some are cats

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.

  

  The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last ... CSC (Chinese Student's Club) hosted it, and a bunch of students from ... a lot of fun. Then, yesterday night Wong Fu Productions came to MIT

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  "...only uninterested people." I kind of hate coming up with titles ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are ... hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of Admissions) smiles with her tablemates Here's Dean Benedict (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• 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
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  The MIT School of Engineering is world renowned. Covering everything from ocean engineering to aeronautics, there's something exciting going on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  List of Rejected Halloween Costume Ideas, 2008 Edition 1.Washing ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011