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  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos ... ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ., and Th., ‘19, emerged in a grand procession. The leader, in a furry cap reminiscent of Russian monarch fashion, carried a golden cardboard crown on a ... cheered. Hugs followed. Solar Car Captain P. ‘17 presented me with a very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... , right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of classmates played the pieces. MIND BLOWN. I had no idea a flute could sound so

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural defense against predators -- since it is a large prime number, no potential predator could possibly prey on the cicada without also evolving into a 17

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  (For those who don't know/can't figure out, "Camberville" is a ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad ... in Pasadena. I felt dumb, but I hung out at Rax's house for a few hours

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design ... professional responsibilities and ethics. A required on-line evaluation is given

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  time to do, including mural painting, knitting, and now... apparently ... or to settle any argument or anything... What do you see when you look

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... can hurt me--and they do. (8) You're the best man I'll ever know. There

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a ... Brazilian British Center (BBC), a building of white marble surrounded by a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... painted-over walls. Each floor of BC has a number of murals that are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from [annotation note="a ... assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even ... (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a college application and you're waiting for a decision), I recommend you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... transcripts, photos from the Creative Photography Lab, a "write a poem with GPT-3" booth with a nice mechanical keyboard… [carousel image1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021