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  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID ... convinced that MIT students have the ingenuity to address global poverty ... Millennium Campus Conference (MCC) at MIT. Her goal is to make poverty an

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... Stephen Dubner, he received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. His

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  wireless access in all rooms? According to the mit wireless access map, it ... floorplans for MIT buildings, but I think it's only accessible on campus. I don ... -rise have screens, but it's not too terribly complicated. I use both methods

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... mouse project, I've been working on a yeast two-hybrid screen. Basically ... interests of MIT biology professors to see which professors were doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes Scholarships. In case you missed this or this, let me update you: so far, 44 MIT ... screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  've been living here since the fall began. Half of us are from MIT, and we ... wasn't from MIT before coming here. I grab a bowl of rice and adobo, head ... alone in MIT again." We talk for a while about how we ended up living in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... at MIT). But see for yourself. Below is the movie 4-145, then the real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  up with folks from MIT Comms, who were leading the redesign of MIT ... , internally nicknamed "the firehose," to curate content generated by the MIT ... and gradient(s) that has long characterized our homepage (and MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  ="aka being firehosed"]my MIT experience,[/annotation] so it reminded me of an ... of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... my classmates by screen names and their profile pictures. But I can

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Evolution GMO documentary screening, or the chancellor’s discussion on MIT ... ” before realizing that I made a tumblr post and not an MIT Admissions one ... into one occasionally matches an MIT Admissions-level post (though lately

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  racial screening. Students get frustrated, angry, averse. I understand the ... ’m working in the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, which is incubating a new graduate ... ). I finally get to use the 47 million Harvard/MIT/Boston Public library

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  There are two things MIT students love—punts and puzzles. What a ... an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I ... , a fast-acting poison has sprayed from your screen and into your body

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

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  smart enough to get into MIT for their college years? I've always been a ... screen high above the entryway to lobby 10. On one day a couple weeks ago ... this briefing and gain more perspective. I work at MIT! And I was there

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  screen, you can tell that it'll be memorable. Now if you were to take a ... , that's pretty much the concept behind much of the learning at MIT: Mens ... department at MIT is notorious for their (Stuffed) Monkey and a Gun demo, which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I would stare longingly out the window. Then when MIT went back to class on Tuesday, it started raining. And I was like "RAWRGH! I HATE MIT AND WANT TO

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  -and-white television screen bolted to the wall.) POLK: (covers the mouthpiece; jerks ... were traveling to the Charles… but not directly through MIT? ARTHUR ... . So we went around MIT, ended up at the river, and threw the file – and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  matter what anyone else tells you -- took out the LCD screen on his i ... ceremony, the priest asked all of the MIT people in the audience to raise our ... it by asking all the recent MIT graduates to raise their hands, and of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  .... Conner 3 Conner 3 has a huge projection screen instead of a TV in their ... know what perceptions other MIT students have of the dorm- they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Undecided HS Senior once again persuades herself that MIT is the best place ... stayed up until midnight yesterday to review the MIT CPW (Campus Preview ... am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  never made any real friends in mit A: oh B: i mean, do you feel like you've made friends in mit A: uh A: i mean A: well, no, not really A: but like A: doesn't everyone in mit feel like this B: nah i think i know people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022