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Comments 3999 & 4000
Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed -
Blog / Admissions
International Selection Day 1
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students. I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to ... choosing only 100 students quite difficult. Already we've had to make -
Blog / Challenges
We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures
graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so -
Blog / MIT Life
Spring Break A week in Iceland.
quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the -
Blog / Events
Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!
While bloggers Jess, Paul, and Snively will be listening to President ... President is expected to begin his remarks around 12:30pm Eastern time. You ... concentrators promise to reduce the cost of solar electricity because they use -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why
, em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... that ability to convey lots of meaning very succinctly is vital in any -
Blog / Blog Projects
24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston
utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... sillier. Today, I present to you: Operation Pumpkin. Objective: Transport -
Blog / Classes
Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow
spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for the functions to make test cases to help me figure out what the FLIPPIN -
Blog / How to Human
Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19
*to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... completely. There’s enough space to leave me trying to figure out the things ... behind? And so I begin to list things out: I’m taking all the knowledge and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience
Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives -
Blog / Life after MIT
Every August a million small moments
This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write, planes to fly, trips to take. MIT isn't my turf anymore, and I -
Blog / Events
LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.
takes place over IAP. Participants will be asked to wrestle with such ... Massachusetts, allowing students the opportunity to fully engage in the leadership ... joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras
D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... remote communities with tools to improve their livelihood. Students, D -
Blog / MISTI
MIT EECS students travel the world
: Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result ... : Bangalore is the best city to work in India –cool weather, awesome variety of food, not too terribly crowded and close to a number of beautiful -
Blog / MIT Life
Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.
, MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... afford to treat myself to quality relaxation time, so I spend half an hour -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…
were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply ... -for-all, resembling an Unreal Tournament. So when UNH asked our battalion to supply -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.
's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor -
Blog / Academics & Research
First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.
come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right
semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it
