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  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not ... :)     The statement reads, Tarnished Horizons Dedicated to the lives disrupted by climate change Tarnished Horizons is intended to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... , and artificial intelligence to improve video games, e-sports, healthcare

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  best way for us to use Facebook pages? Groups? Does Google Plus help at ... right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... ed sites to "go social", if by "going social" you mean things like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  accelerator. This accelerator is to be used to detect fissile material, in hopes ... The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... RA there (basically, Residential Life funds cool events I want to run

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... MIT—an intensive entrepreneurship workshop that runs over IAP, open to any member of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  schedules to Google Calendar. Try both Planner and Picker to see which layout ... , who wrote about it here. This is the best tool to plan your academic ... completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random ... sourced from a Google form I sent out to ec-discuss, East Campus's general ... EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  students to become leaders, helping to accelerate high-impact, science ... Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  to accelerate this strategy is for me to carry my camera around far ... Friday by 11:59:59 PM. I love assignments due by email. :-) I still need to ... !) French exam, but that doesn't mean I need to wake up any earlier than 11

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... magazine. Google News is the best.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself ... .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on ... clear trend, and it is accelerating. If the long-term trend continues, all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  'll be accelerating the rest of my photo journal entries to make way for my ... . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I would have to pack into senior ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020