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  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a ... guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine ... on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day, 12/17/2011. But I actually wrote that post on the 16th, because on the morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students will be considered afresh in Regular Action. For more information on ... post from last year on the subject. In our review and committee process ... for all the fun we sometimes have on the blogs, we take our work very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading ... research project that was conducting comprehensive surveys on the rural poor ... : Chennai is a very vibrant city with a unique coastal atmosphere. Jumping on a

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... invitation on my iPhone and was shuffled to the Regis Theatre hastily, since ... ;…an oddly tasteful, composed take on doomsday,” &ldquo

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  : Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result ... working on improving user productivity and blogging experience. The city ... imposed; for instance the public transport doesn’t run on Shabbat

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off ... cilantro and cheddar on top and the cheese melted all over the starchiness of ... , rendering Kahlua obsolete in my pantry, and drank it cold on the rocks like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a ... is focused on articulating and developing strategic directions: what ... disciplinary constraints? To explore these issues, I have been on an extended

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  The MIT Freshman Application will open on August 19th. Our ... would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a ... your application in first! We do not read applications on a first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion Picture (1992) You may have seen MIT: The Motion Picture on our homepage or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  Louis-Rosenberg on TechNewsDaily recently and thought it was pretty neat ... on the leading edge of a growing fashion trend. More and more ... would have these models I designed on the computer laying around my desk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... mural on my whiteboard. I have a confession to make: I’ve never actually seen the elephants. I don’t think I even knew it was going on my

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... factors in my decision process (see below for resources on making your own ... plenty of space on the harddrive. So any old green computer couldn

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry ... class focuses on developing the basic skills of a researcher: coming up ... hours working on the MIT ambulance, getting some extra driving experience

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  robot, never coded on my TI-89, never watched Star Wars. I did not get a 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4 ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be classified as violent assault. Students even get a discount on the classes, so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what ... with air conditioning writing on the internet about how I feel when there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  windchill hit -20, or that time someone said something stupid on gchat and I ... .00 on my TechCash account. Do you realize how hard this is? This is like ... open at once on a 13 inch MacBook screen. 4a) My own mother threatened

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010