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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful ... charged with admitting a Class of 2010. And even for students who have had ... normalcy returns. Please know that for students directly affected by this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  former Rush chair for MacGregor, agrees with me. One question I hear ... intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different ... 've found something you like so quickly, and maybe it is the best place for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  it, and we met in the Anthropology Department's conference room for ... " and refuse the food. For some reason, this really bothered Sam -- maybe ... program for students who want to go to medical school. MIT has no official

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 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…

  

  Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small-interfering RNA (siRNA) in mice. It may seem odd for a student like me, who plans ... goes well, this mouse model can be used to create a therapy for influenza

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some ... 's mother deserves an Academy Award just for her bizarre facial tics and for ... their store set up for the book's arrival, so we got neither lightning nor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  , so before PetCo we stopped in at Borders for smoothies. They had Magic ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... -German Shepard mix, Toby. My younger brother got it for his birthday a few years

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... was really supportive and helpful to me back when I was running for UAVP ... East walked to Sicilia's Pizza for dinner. We'd all ordered it before for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... choose whatever is more pleasing for you, bunk beds or two separate beds ... singles, doubles, triples and quads. For a quad, I suppose, one could have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  lengthen outside Boston City Hall as people wait for Chowderfest. Flame ... people and free food. When free food exists, people's tolerance for long lines increases exponentially. For a 6 oz Iced Coffee from Dunkin' Donuts

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  I think I have ever had and told me to go make sandwiches for myself ... , but as I was getting ready for bed I heard the sound I will forever ... James N. Murphy award, "for MIT employees whose contributions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... hope for myself and the world as a freshman and sophomore and regrettably ... sweetness in this, asking so plainly for a little more time. my 4W friends

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  assignment for 2.007, which was due Sunday night at Midnight. I’ll explain more ... work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... “The Arm”, and a base I’ll call… well I don’t really have a name for that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  getting on a skateboard again for the next six years. It wasn’t until a ... Discord server for recommendations, I headed over to Orchard Skateshop. I ... he could help me get a board for cruising around Cambridge and Boston

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure ... you skip reading an article you can nap in the Banana Lounge for an hour ... for. Some were moving gently. It was bizarre, sort of otherworldly

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... : our boba bureaucrats liked it enough, so "Into the MITverse" it was. For ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... for myself are too high. standards such as — i must be intelligent and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... . I helped out at the tournament, and then left for my house's weekly 11 ... The Muppet Christmas Carol. I didn't vote for it, but I'm very glad it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  is always calmer than the ones that follow. For now at least, I ... yourself and putting aside time for yourself is not just a necessary evil. It ... maximize a proxy value for a quantity when you could maximize the quantity

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

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to ... me explain why. Make a guess for how many people got their flu shots that day. The clinic was held for ten hours. How many? A thousand? Two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... can’t study for. It’s an unpredictable, amazing, terrifying whirlwind

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019