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  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  , California, who reportedly has the same music taste as everyone in LA, wants to ... photojournalist who has always wanted to live in a city and finally treated himself ... ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... going home for Thanksgiving first organized it in 2014. Since then, it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  171 parent-friendly events in the schedule. If a visit to the site or a ... , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  running. We're meeting with a manufacturer in a couple of weeks to discuss ... . Basically, MIT forces you to take artsy-fartsy classes in order to stay well ... each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  you have submitted. We appreciate the time and effort you have put in to ... waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still settling down, we wanted to give you all an update as soon as possible

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square. After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta ... in a group... In the picture below are my friends Elyse '07 (Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• 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…

  

  to perform a critical step in the production process. By inserting a ... , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an undergraduate, she made sure to take time to explore our campus and enjoy the

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

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4 ... the waitlist. Thanks to some good yield prediction this year, using the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and ... complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine ... have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... ‘insignificant.’ In math contexts, though, ‘trivial’ generally refers to something ... happens to a system (such as a pendulum) if you give it a small nudge in one

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  to come even harder, but reminding myself how much pain she was in ... photo album and my mom ordered a small wooden box to put her ashes in. the ... picture of all of us with her to the top. I painted flowers in honor of her

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It ... things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  your friends, on your professors, on the random people you sit next to in ... insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and ... Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways to avoid this though. But I personally don't want to put in the work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational ... there is in me. I remember when I told him last year that I'd gotten

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011