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  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  is so integral to the present and future of the world, especially the ... know every tricky turn up their sleeve. That’s not how real world driving

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  human to learn how to apply calculus to improve the world. Machines ... critical thinking, gain wisdom about the world and our place in it. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  at big oil companies that can afford a herd of interns. 13.StateofWorld ... happened within the MIT community and the world, from losing a member of our

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  previous summers UROPing on campus, so I was hyped to explore the world ... radical isolation from a world that runs on literal dollars. In other news

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  ;   First, here's Danny demoing the World's Worst Spoon, which him and ... coming week I'll be tabling at ISEF, the world's largest and most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Today is the 121st Boston Marathon, the oldest, and most famous, marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... with yourself and the world you're entangled with, to achieve.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  ’s more that, well, I just feel like a citizen of the world. One way of ... values. For better or worse, it’s a simple fact that the world is more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century ... how much they have to contribute to the nation and the world afterward

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  insistent on seeking the facts. A place of rigor, ingenuity and real-world ... together to make a better world. That is MIT. Nothing can change that. And

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  The world looked very different today. The presidential election is over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many ... long but it bends toward justice." -MLK That the world always goes in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the ... ! Every day, and from all over the world, we receive offers of lucrative

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  way our students see the world, and, as such, the kinds of problems (and ... anthropologists conduct fieldwork around the world, from Mongolia to Belize to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  room has a brilliant idea, builds it, and changes the world. And ... as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  world. To appreciate the world we have. (E.O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  . Aesthetic 5. Practical Readings Disclosing New Worlds, Spinosa, Flores and ... in a good way. What I Actually Read Between the World and Me, Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world. Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  is known as the "father of modern linguistics" and the "world's top ... occurrence. The unit was prefaced by the account of the world's first and only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  than to learn about the world through science, and travel into the realms ... fantastical world, mathematical or not. I am also excited about life outside of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... ’s like to love science and math, be curious about the world, and remain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014