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  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such ... 18th and 19th century topics, and may be repeated for credit with ... ’s “New Faces of 1996” and has since garnered a PEN/Malamud Award for short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  MIT, with a unique talent for both writing and astrophysics. Perhaps you ... (1995), Dance for Two (1996), or Reunion (2003). In 2002, he cofounded the ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  's artistic and culinary adventures at leftunattended.com. Looking for a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  -field-hockey-season-rest I had allocated for myself was officially over, so I should get my ... dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing ... fun. And a really intense workout. I’ll be sore tomorrow, that’s for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT's original Course 20, "Food Technology, Nutrition Science, and Applied Biological Sciences", existed in the MIT Course Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until the last remaining

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  advertisement. Seriously, it warmed my heart. An advertisement for Western

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  as the "international symbol for Frank O. Gehry architecture." This is ... ?" Yes, MIT is infamous for accumulating a collection of unusual and (dare ... 'm not sure who came up with the idea of a windowless brick cylinder for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  Over the next week (or so), I’ll be publishing newspaper articles I’ve collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of 2010 (if there was a…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years ... the application process very early (January or February) for best

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  prime fireworks watching location. 2. The Sailing Pavilion. For members ... Carboat. MIT students and alums love creating their own venues for watching ... canons for 1812 are always a big hit. Here are some photos I took from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  Vice President for Alternative Programming, Specials and Late Night at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  ] What's next: Working as an analyst for Lehman Brothers in NYC for their ... unexposed to otherwise. Favorite MIT Professor: Terry Heagney for 15 ... everyone in the class. Random MIT Memory: Trying bubble tea for the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  exciting for two reasons... first, it was my first ride in an ambulance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  their reasons for visiting Boston, and it turns out the wife is running

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only for women until Persian traveler Jonas Hanway popularized umbrella use among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... for large numbers of people. Most people on the waitlist will not be ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. What should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr ... has several important real-world applications. For example ... infeasible for Intel to scrap all of their existing machinery, which is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006