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  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... From Chimps?The split between the human and chimpanzee lineages may have occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  Annan (MIT SM '72) and MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte '66 unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This ... innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted ... scarcely enough programs to serve them. "We are undercutting the research and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... passing, Jessica and I learned that we both had known Professor Winston .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... , and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time ... Legislature and several meetings have prevented my writing within the past week ... . Several congratulatory and other speeches were made, and the venerable old

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and Sarah Kay Week 2: TableTop, Net Neutrality, and Complexity Theory Week 3: Independent Video Games, X-Men, and ... nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  MIT News Office that addressed this point, but really butchered my ... -shifting' for modern time, media Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent ... the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media" (Cornell

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even ... Wikipedia article would let on. Basically, you take a double bond and some ... oxygen on the vacant end of each double bond - and voila, ozonolysis. There

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  from our waitlist. This morning, we emailed (and will follow up via snail ... students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in for a day before leaving for Albuquerque and I can tell you that it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a completely unrelated note...here's my actual entry. What's black and gray all ... 's edition of TechTalk, a newspaper published by the MIT News Office. Why

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  often get some interesting notices over the list, and thought I'd share ... : ****************************** Equity Trading Game and Tutorial Wednesday, March 2, 2005 4:30pm-5:30pm ... room. This is what the MIT News Office wrote about it when it was built

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  place?  Graphs appear widely in news stories, on social media, and on the ... share with you guys what me and Nathan, my project partner came up with ... 128 x 128 images, each depicting a scene, and each labeled with one of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  rollercoasters we build. After my question they took one from MIT News and then one ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... begged another TA to switch recitation spots with me and confirmed my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  Ketterle, Prof. Phil Sharp and their brethren. Maybe you think of students ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  started packing for your adventure and I hope you're shaking with excitement ... and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be ... you're doing one), REX, orientation and rush. There's simply too much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  music. And then, CMS also has let me look at journalism and the news ... control of the pay. And so, news systems are having to figure out new ... think that’s very interesting. And, the whole thing with like, fake news

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  , even in San Francisco, because some news suggested that the Transamerica ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then seconds later watching it fall as if my words made it happen. And I

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  .mit.edu as soon as possible to ensure that you know your MyMIT username and ... not have a definitive date and time when letters will be mailed, but it ... expect a large envelope and not a tube. Students not admitted will receive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006