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  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  understands the power of good research institutions--which are first made by ... challenges of this first iteration. After the long, crazy process of starting ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this ... just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  several pounds of fruit. We decided to work on the fruit salad first. I can ... to see what kind of deals we could find. Trekking down the Infinite ... a room on the second floor of Building Four where they were casting

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  the walls. In order that the descendants of those first "Founders ... Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... attend, your next mailing ("The Next Big Mailing") has all of the awesome

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  generations. For a few weeks, the first, larger set of hens acted aggressively ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... ’re flexible! Anyway, when I first met with the coordinator for the program, she ... the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was ... meaning of the word life is, or what the meaning of the meaning of the word ... of the bad question that is, in essence, unanswerable. Now, if you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... commitment. For the first two weeks of IAP, it met from 11am to 3pm five days a ... , and I attended them during the first week of IAP. I learned the basics

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... ... ...first I tested the water with Bao '07 and Ling '07 (Kendall '07 was taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of the cruise in complimentary pizza rolls within the first 5 minutes of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  imagine.  The Hobby Shop (one of the first MakerSpaces on campus) just ... about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  .670 course website): The first day of class was like Christmas and Hanukah and ... of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering ... the engine is only half of the process. The machining is divided between

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
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