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  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... expertise in creating insightful questions for institute surveys. Jag Patel ... the BSU Lounge to take in-person suggestions for the list. The PAC

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning ... take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal ... extensive to fix in time. It didn't matter though. 2.007 was a trial by fire

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... ’re certified in the IAP class, you can show up for open forge whenever you like ... , but it’s mostly used for hitting things very hard in one direction

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the ... flaws in the designs. Someone else, perhaps as sleepless as yourself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... pass, in order for you to begin to submit your version. At school, if my ... ’s working on conversation design for the Google Home. It’s in this new field

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... far. A statement button: For those into feminist think pieces as well as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  conditions, and other major issues in near-future urban contexts." I took notes ... gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a ... has a high entropy. In chemistry, the entropy for chemical substances ... calculator addiction: What if we knew the solution before the calculation? In

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  of a breakthrough with a vaccine for the virus in the offing, it feels ... [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  get something in before an application deadline (did that last week for ... ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... centralized in its teaching for each class). It's frustrating—one of my math

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago ... My last rendezvous with an ambulance occurred in the suffocating heat ... home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -167) ______ For students with some previous experience in poetry writing. Frequent ... with an overview of basic themes and issues in Middle Eastern history ... -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben's blog (about halfway ... wanted to because there aren't enough seats in the lecture hall for ... this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  sent me checks for $20,000 each. I rushed to deposit the checks in my ... philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  intended to be a creative tool for [annotation note="i.e., being able to tell ... holding in-person rehearsals for eight or so people every Monday. Everybody ...  do each semester—for example, in Fall 2020, I did around 58 hours of "actual

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  … We have to put ourselves in the shoes of the people for whom we ... figurative (and for many literal) feet, not only for the quality of the speaking, but the substance of which he spoke. For many people, Colin really

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  fixed in time for class this afternoon anyways? Susanne at the Schedules ... dealing with RSI issues and volunteer for other high school summer programs ... stations and try to earn stickers for their folders (the five-year-old in me

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... class with a variable focus, would become a comic script workshop for this ... introduction). Our professor for the semester was Marjorie Liu, a New York Times

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  different dorms, and I've discussed campus issues with a lot of people in a ... plans for residents of those dorms. In my experience, West Campus students ... Laura '09 had an interesting bit a while back in her blog about East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005