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  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental ... , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... ] An MIT researcher has developed a technique to deblur shaky camera

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch ... left to right: Nick, Peak, Jijun, Johann, Mike, Donald, Amber, Kenny (MIT ... their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... holiday. Apparently (according to Wikipedia, anyway) the parade began back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  be returning to Loop. And we're all so hosed, so utterly destroyed by ... word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to ... to be the quiet floor and instead, transformed it into something loud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... product. Don't be afraid of detours Most founders hate detours, and want to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  .e. Chinese characters. In fact, Korean used to be written exclusively in ... Japanese textbook for beginners. My goal is to finish Genki II by the end of ... used everyone in the room as her instrument by instructing us to hum

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  propose a way to spend Simmons funds. Sometimes it’s for things like ... to run for Social Chairs. As social chairs, we will be responsible for ... one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  bear. We're right in between the United Kingdom bear, who appears to be ... ." Heinrich Heine, 1820. I should be allowed to think. ... -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  doesn't either. Right now, you might be waiting to find out if you got ... .[annotation note="the truly observant will be able to decipher the order in which the ... ?[annotation note="he is a nerd"] Waiting doesn't have to be horrible. If none

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I ... night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  to continue editing Wikipedia, I think those efforts would be better ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy ... as the prime minister. I sent the link to my friends, like, haha check

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  feel sick, and a need to be normal somehow. I pulled out my supplies and ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their

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

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  over the years, he confides, "By the way, I didn't go to MIT."   ... Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since this program is only open to MIT students, the application pool to these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in ... going into industry. There will be a huge group going to Manhattan to work ... MIT tradition, complete with: - a performance by a top-notch band (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  term, my GPA would increase by one tenth of one point (MIT only rounds to ... shuffled my way over to the student services center, picked up an add ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  . Yesterday, I stopped by 10-100 to say hi to people in the admissions reception ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green ... ="attachment_90798" align="aligncenter" width="507"] this summer i've been biking to ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008