Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  applications such as biodegradable plastic production and bioremediation. My ... % yield. My research has centered on engineering a plasmid into Rhodococcus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  ) about the series(!) finale of my ex-favorite TV show, Veronica Mars. The ... . Just keeping up the theme. Angrily, Laura Which basically sums up my ... , while you're down there, please lick the bottom of my shoes and then don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you ... my dreams After the long workdays this week, I couldn't even escape CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am perfect today. Perfect? What do you mean, "perfect," you ask? Well, today is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers

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

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above ... of my groupmates is also conducting a survey on latrine usage. There

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester ... for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  won't be taking it this term. =( But more on my actual class schedule later. For now, I have to stuff my entire life into boxes.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... yesterday. I watched the first 80 minutes of regulation play in my apartment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... living in for the next two months, for my summer internship at EPFL (the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and ... get my bearings, shop for travel-appropriate items, and see every single

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom pointed this out last night, and unless I'm missing something, I agree with ... statistically irrelevant, in my opinion. (It would be different if there were one

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1 ... thought he was joking). At this point, I took out my laptop and tried to

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  . It's a bit of a tough one because my goals have changed substantially ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family sort of assumed it, and so did I. By the end of my freshman year, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  reporting this news by both Matt and Bryan. By my count, this is the third ... term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of ... intramural sports in my three years at MIT. The first two were just because

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... enough to teach an old dog a new trick, I'm sure I can teach you my

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  my harrowing adventures tutoring writing for the Media And Technology ... you why you're here at MIT in the first place. In my case, having ... children in my day. Ok, that's the boy's side of camp, but that cabin

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  longer unthinkable." So, just as my classmates did research with Prof. Lander (who was my Introductory Biology teacher; you can also choose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a rejected applicant - I know that my feelings do not compare. But at the same

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005