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  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... what it means to actually learn from mistakes. Relationships, personal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some ... embarrassingly MIT? we're lucky to have some people share their good news. there

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring ... lot more things to consider than I addressed in these few panels.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... 's to come. I don't think this is going to be one of those posts. I don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the ... and headed out to Wichita, Kansas for the 18th Annual AIAA DBF ... .   (You'd be surprised how many people want to lick our airplane. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... about this, this quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the final presentation of the class Science Fiction to Science Fabrication

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk. We understand that this may be a difficult

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if ... . This marks the end of a very good start to what will be a very good ... , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... huge plus. When studying for exams, it's NOT agony to flip through my old

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted in EA

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk. We understand that this

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... or responding to any e-mails or phone calls during this period; email ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... all the things I love. I will also be back at MGH soon to volunteer so ... Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is dedicated to education and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012