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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  order to truly improve the education of the millions of students in the ... few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America ... necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  a million dollars. Mostly, it's just awe of the fact that the entire ... fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking of what will be and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  parts: 4 weeks of product management 8 weeks of software engineering ... basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and ... kinds of interviews. This is not meant to be an end all, be all guide to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  million digits of pi with perfect accuracy every time! The other students ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... ... How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look?  

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... /Writing Experience This is your "portfolio", and is the single most important part of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  millions of other cosmic bodies whirling around in the Kuiper belt, are ... Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest, grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all ... engineers, and there are a lot of us! Since February, about 150 mechanical ... this competition. Bryan and I had the pleasure of spending pretty much

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays ... an “Institute of Technology.”  Having been talking to other class of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... dinner a few months ago, Bertucci’s was the obvious choice of venue. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... opinion, some of the best blogs that have ever been written for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  doctor, or becoming any 1 of millions of things you could possible be. But ... of buildings around campus, MIT would rather have pipes and wires and ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing ... repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I ... going to code in Johnson Ice Rink surrounded by a million other people, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  and regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or ... . We are not particularly picky about the definition of a blog. Broadly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... attracted the attention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations ... Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... announced the founding of the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019