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• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... places like this are just a half-hour T ride away. The world is a big

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  world. It does a wonderful job of taking the reader step by step through ... teleportation is used to send bits of data. In a world where the speed of light is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  to come with newer air, newer lungs, heck, a newer world. The absurd ... clung to the snatch of rationality that surely still governed the world ... felt the bit of his mind that clung to a familiar world unroll, unfold

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  world has been affected. You have 48 hours to decode everything and find ... ability to probe the errors of the world. High-quality satire such as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT Sandwich In The World™: (1) Slap together week-old bacon, lettuce, tomatoes ... world. Where an MIT education can fall short, however, is in "soft skills

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  become Princess Luna, one of the pony royalty of the world of Equestria. As ... by the entire world if I did so. Arguably, this is less of a costume

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013