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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  , and I almost forgot the best part. Today I was talking to my supervisor, Juergen, about nice places to go in Europe. Juergen said that his absolute favorite is Rome, and that one time he went to Rome and saw the Pope walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It ... "Electricity and Magnetism for Masochists") had an official response to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... -of-consciousness prose and doing chemical kinetics homework that it will have to wait until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra-curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... works. It takes another three pages to derive the social demand curve ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never considered -- teaching physics at a high school level. That would allow me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  that stuck with me. such things tend to stick with me. we were talking ... the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days to prepare, and i shrivel from embarrassment every time someone ... spinning to redeem myself and wipe that talk from my memory. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP ... arcade that we went to the last time we hung out with our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... resolution to start reading a novel, a resolution that lasted just about until

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... out to be invisible until right after everyone leaves the dinner table ... -sweet BBQ sauce that makes me want to weep honeyed, tangy tears of the same

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009