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  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  would put a picture up, but teratomas are a rather shocking sight. My ... "yum"? Friday: My prefrosh, Minh, was quite the trooper and wanted to come to my 9:30 AM biochemistry class. So, after a breakfast in Burton

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... students. I have always been passionate about food (I think it comes from my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  Program, commonly referred to as UROP, which gives me and my fellow ... discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and ... good an opportunity as any to figure out if biology is "my thing" and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot ... . There's a pretty big stack of folders on my dining room table. Just how ... interviewer have told us, it is my job to summarize your application on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on a few of these mysterious confections. Lo and behold, my dietary

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  Wave/Outrun" playlist on Spotify. Prompt: "How many people live in your hometown?" My ... to fill the remaining space instead. My favorite one is the alien ... 've read in the past year alone so it's hard to decide, but some of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  I've been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord ... .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... Thursday night; the majority of my classes have work due on Friday, and I had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well ... , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now ... find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... hours and pestered people for help.” I felt so proud of my (veritably not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  his entire SoundCloud. Here is one of my favorites: Joe wants to show ... senior thesis. In a past life, she was my roommate at Random. Chel has ... technology to market. My experience with GEL is limited to a guest lecture in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  be available on MyMIT in January. On this report, you can provide us ... updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all ... , but try not to wait until the last minute! What happens if some of my

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... before about my role as a leader. Not convinced? Well, here's another ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... . :) ---- Hey! I’m Jia Zhu, a sophomore biology major at MIT. Although my year ... part of my MIT experience has defined my views about service and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  of angst and pain known as Paying Tuition). My situation was thus: One ... colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... grade. So I decided to cross “Finish high school” off my to-do list

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  necessarily true. One of my roommates actually gets around 10 hours of sleep ... same time. In my opinion, that's also another excellent thing about ... days ago I was studying for my 8.01 (physics) test two days before the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  lab. I’m certainly glad I did! I’ve learned so much from my ... : “Whether it’s formal gowns (my favorite thing to sew), quilts, pajamas, or gifts for my sorority sisters, I always like to have a project

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... meantime, here's my latest MIT-induced headache: So I had this semi ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  nice as my hometown is, I could scarcely imagine it as being the true ... -hour-per-week UROP, and my overly ambitious attempt at a double major filled my schedule with five other classes that I thought looked cool. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006