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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... where the speakers shared their insights about the ins and outs of being a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of ... ". Among the key issues discussed was the concept of neutrality- what it means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT ... count the number of people who watch the webcast, it is the most attended ... the competing teams; I also expect you will learn how one of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 9 ZigZag presents the Vehicle Design Summit and more.

  

  The newest episode of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is now available. It features a very cool piece about the Vehicle Design Summit, definitely worth ... ? Check it out: Enjoy the episode!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  , and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman, the soundtrack from Dil Se... (awesome Bollywood stuff)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I submit a maker portfolio?

  -on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board review the portfolios. ... The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through ... Hey friends, I'd like to pass along a message from Jennifer Li, the Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when ... modular design, scalability and the potential and weaknesses of ... hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, rather than the 10s of years in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  , Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the ... the Cheesy Tots. I don't even want to know how many years of my life I ... Battle of the Bands 2007? I guess you'll have to wait and see ;-) In other

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication ... is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the ... transcription of another protein that allows the synthesis of a certain amino acid

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature ... Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings, and Caitlin plays the harp (yeah, she

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to ... iMac in the center of the room. We watched as a second plane flew into the second tower. The most personal part of the day for me was what we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... the form of awesome things. Even though I'm not myself an engineer, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  very small number of schools, and that some colleges spend most of the fall (and sometimes a good chunk of the spring) visiting half a dozen ... among the tens of thousands of schools we didn't visit, let me tell you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server ... filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... especially of the men of East Campus in scoring some Victoria's Secret MIT Pink ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each ... the end of the year (Easter term). Since each student generally takes 5 ... , these 1.5 hour exams are pretty much 100% of your grade in the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... Lebowski," "Almost Famous") stole the show as Gust Avrakotos, one of the few

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008