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  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this ... concerts in the past week, for free. Concert #1: Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te ... are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... in Tokyo, refining my Japanese skills. Unfortunately, because MIT does ... it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family ... optimization in language models. I met people and took in new media: I met

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... Epsilon fraternity house: The pilot light on the main Vulcan stove in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... 've been working in Morgan's lab for the last three years, which makes me one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... pharmaceutical company in Boston (a lot of people take a year or two off between ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... work due the following week in the days that follow. However. In planning this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the fall of last year, there were three economics majors in the entire class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  , I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of pressure trying to summarize myself in a few sentences. Should I mention the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... enjoy their interviews each year and they were out in force that night working with the staff members in attendance to check in the students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... faculty member or research staff person) agree upon. But in any case, it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  There is a whiteboard in Ben's office which was apparently once used ... . It is now covered in graffiti such as witty poetry and linear algebra ... is hard you're all in it together with your classmates. Then you will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  Arthur Genius Grant in 2001, hence the reused genius crack above. She's my ... in Miami when she released her first novel, Getting Mother's Body. It's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in ... have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger ... applicants we have admitted in the past. One quality that we look for in all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006