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Blog / Academics & Research
What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet
with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media: Ethan and I -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year
the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year -
Blog / Events
MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!
Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks ... The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released -
Blog / Academics & Research
A lot about course 9
Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned -
Blog / En Español
Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…
a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the minute he walked through the doors of Volaris’ Samara offices, Tayo, MIT Sloan MBA ’14, was reminded that he was at one of Latin -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
*Oink Oink* Nobody panic!
of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went ... blue mask. As of today, ~4 people living within 50 feet of me had some -
Blog / Extracurriculars
And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!
, and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the talented people who applied. If Blogger selection was any indication of what ... year. That's just as well since Chris Peterson has a hatred of LOLcats -
Blog / Academics & Research
Freebie I love freebies!
Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... Wednesdays are pretty awesome. My Friday is pretty the opposite of awesome. Oh, and a quick translation for those of you who don't speak numbers. 2 -
Blog / MIT Life
Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.
I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that ... Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston
my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my -
Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…
I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three -
Blog / Academics & Research
checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...
Taekwondo, I once went to a tournament at the University of Vermont, which is ... kind of crazy to me Earn your degree ✅ Somehow did this one… ... this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts -
Blog / Admissions
Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'
learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple -
Blog / Events
Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.
? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class ... were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my -
Blog / Community Projects
Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.
tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... root of experiment. It is processed ignorance, carefully constructed ... ." - Professor Eric Lander, Professor of 7.012 (Introductory Biology), Director of -
Blog / How to Human
Jargon
Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories
replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO ... talk in September of last year, you might've gotten this exact water -
Blog / MIT Life
Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development
-income households through development of low-cost technologies. It is extremely common ... of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my