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  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  . (But actually it was awesome, and much like a baby-PAX – a video game conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... must admit that while I was very, very, very excited, I had a weird breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  Media Studies, taught by Ian Condry. He's a cultural anthropologist; his ... having one or a small group of "authors" or "creators"; we associate ... atmosphere of a new film or the wide variety of fan-produced content ranging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity ... students with a team-based product development experience. Students will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment ... was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has ... . As a proud, first generation, Mexican-American woman, I found that

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  as a perfunctory check than anything else, and low and behold, there actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... could handle two groups. The MITWE director, Dr. Fred Harris, is a great

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  , March 5, the Somerville Theatre was packed for a World Music Crash Arts event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the ... films ever made, which by virtue makes it a—gasp—silent film

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  ETS – the Educational Testing Service, a.k.a. producer of the SAT, GRE ... mentioned exams, but rather, a newer test called the TOEIC – Test of English for International Communication – a.k.a. English for the business

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  Dining is a hot topic here, and rightfully so 'cause a tooling MIT ... produce stand to campus Anne Wilson, Campus Dining March 27, 2009 A ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card, and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book ... . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  show that 5-6% of MIT alums earn a J.D. Of my MIT friends who are lawyers, one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... obscure occasions of note. Created by a leading young visionary in the ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007