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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my coursework this semester, as represented by some notes from each class: 16.06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  - here's one of many examples. By asking you for your opinions on this I ... topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  heavily polluted system of canals and small lakes fed by water treatment ... by the degradation of the ozone layer, weakens young axolotls, making ... extinct by the time they were identified. In the past decade, 40% of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 ... as the classroom sessions. I anticipate one of the strangest things

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  ; sponsored by the state California)). Fully 97.9% of the patients fall below ... with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... ) section of the President's House-- [caption id="attachment_46032" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My grandpa shared an anecdote of his childhood with me that I think really ... I first came to MIT, I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but who

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half ... bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... ) Scared about repercussions c) A member of the MIT faculty d) Tempted to e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  ! of our art, some was painted by students and some was sourced from ... and was painted by a freshman, who called it a collection of random ... were painted by the floor. I really enjoy the diversity of art we have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... a number of other events that despite not having a fireworks display

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  exactly she meant by “finalist” (= one of the top 10). Phone interviews with ... the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  digress, you must pardon me - see I came here to talk not of life and dreams But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my ... into a shooting competition with another one of the advisees and it made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the scoop - it's not sent out by admissions, rather, it's handled

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V-day cards signed by all the bloggers. This means that we sat down, faced an ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing. Signing your name that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  authors of Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. It was the beginning of ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems. The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ). Unfortunately our Memory Mushroom has finite volume. In fact, by the end of ... -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011