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Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?
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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 / 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 / MIT Life
A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight
handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... summer time. I try to believe that stress doesn’t change me, so the bubbly, excitable, carefree girl I’m telling you to picture isn’t so different from -
Blog / Life after MIT
Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only
every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I -
Blog / MIT Life
Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!
Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering ... immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the ... coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family -
Blog / How to Human
Take Care of Us asking for change
I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?
to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... visual feats. Not to mention their inventions can be applied to medicine -
Blog / Miscellaneous
The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*
that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed air. According to ... 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... actuators to short out. A second robot, a biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.
before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting with Beacon St. and Marlborough St., which run parallel to the water on ... -containing street parallel to the water and Marlborough St. is the next one over -
Blog / Academics & Research
Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!
, I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... 'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to -
Blog / Athletics
World Cup Finals
Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!
So we're almost an hour past May 3, which means you SHOULD have finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…
So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a -
Blog / MIT Life
sticker stories adorned on my water bottles
still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... everything around me. My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead -
Blog / Miscellaneous
So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one
! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST
If you hang around MIT long enough you'll begin to notice some ... MIThenge, after Stonehenge in England, and not to be confused with "Mitt ... science has progressed to the point where we can predict solar eclipses and -
Blog / MISTI
Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.
This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... - House of Poo Poo it was. Welcome to House of Poo Poo, aka Toilet Special