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  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Browsing Matt's blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn ... was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  American idiom for, “This blog is so full of content that I have to stop now ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced ... planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  I thought to myself, you're right Hasan. It is pretty dope. Not for ... make it dope. It's being able to have a heart-to-heart with anyone and ... This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  and artists, we have not yet managed to liberate women from the ... discussions, and is less likely to feel that she recieves due credit for her ... . Male and female students have different backgrounds coming into MIT, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your ... else to imbue your theoretical, abstract learning with a lot more

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... , around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to do to numbers. You could not imagine my joy when earlier this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving Gobble gobble!

  

  (From 6.00 lecture on Tuesday - clearly, my mind was on the lecture...) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope you all are enjoying the holiday weekend - spend some good, relaxing time with your family and friends

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  - which makes me sad because I have to walk over to Baker dorm next door and ... McCormick absolutely pristine. Unfortunately though, I still have to ... Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  extracurricular activity to which most can devote time – unless, that is, you ... convinced that MIT students have the ingenuity to address global poverty ... doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... entry is done, and now it's time to go to class. Adios!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  Marilee Jones. Now I don't think you'd really get to have the chance to see ... didn't get answered? I had a fun time meeting a lot of you, and I hope to ... Marilee Jones's singing voice when she sang to the students who had

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in the arts with your passion for all things techie, look no further, you ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... computer science classes this year, but today I only have a single lecture ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021