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  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  mix of Spanglish. Translation only went awry once, when I tried to order ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately ... by the direct funding deadline (we've all been there). When my soon-to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to ... . Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2: rotors rotating, spanners spanning, you should be able to check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  reminded of something that Stu Schmill once said to me, which was essentially ... me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate ... until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  into the negative space to bring out paper from nowhere! How does this ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... out to be my favorite class that term (the others were 8.04 8.044 18

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me crazy lately. Plus, at home, I never have to walk 15 minutes to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  classes, aspiring teachers will need to complete competency challenges (e ... you. You still need to separately take care of yourself, your social ... 10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  [annotation note="honestly, i'm definitely going to change this name. please ... the talks happen in my room, which is room 251. the general goal is to talk to lots of different people at MIT about their experiences here, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to ... up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French ... This was a fantastic session, short enough to appeal to beginners, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them ... discoveries. They linked to two great articles, one from Wired Magazine and the

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to be shorter (ending ~4pm) and we get breaks when we need them. During one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... wind and trudging through the snow), I really needed a sunny vacation. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of your business, but try not to worry too much. Remember the difference ... 'll go is not who you'll be. Most of all, try to enjoy your senior year; it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt ... --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was ... to write an entry about my experience here at Los Alamos, but anything

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers ... (independently) were expecting glass flowers like at the Bellagio. Not so much

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005