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  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  healthcare, followed by manufacturing and energy. It's cool to see winners in ... Director of Data at Second Spectrum, which is used by almost all NBA ... was more of a recognition of energy achievements in the years before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... , New Jersey, and New Hampshire. We're travelling by plane to Seattle and renting a van once there to take all the way back to Boston. We must be back

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited ... largely out of my mind and was brought into focus again by the recent ... implications of winning the majority of individual votes--by a sizable margin at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  , surrounded by tall, looming pine trees, listening to the tinny sound of the ... the moon by the cardigans, which ended up being one of our favorite ... . the process of tackling these problems and fixing them feels so natural

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  semester. I celebrate by watching a marathon of intense horror movies. I ... sleep. October 14, 2017 The next round of monthly bills is due: rent ... the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... center) 2:04 -- I just led everybody through a game of MIT Hangman. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  being reserved/quiet seen as a bad thing by admissions officers? Of those ... Admission Counseling (NACAC) Journal of College Admission by Thomas Hanley ... the college admission process is fraught with complexities of all kinds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my time at MIT. Some semesters go by better than others, but at this point

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  of every second of CPW by meeting your prospective classmates and doing ... ? (Question submitted by Elena B. '17) This is a fantastic question, and one of the ... " events? (Question submitted by Elena B. '17) These are some of my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  that I would feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of STEM in comparison ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT ... , engage in different modes of thinking, and practice problem solving by ... process of creating an online course for 21G.027 Visualizing Japan in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor ... .) ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote: "My EPGY class is to be finished by the end of february, and ... description of the school's location and local resources, etc.) Then the GC will

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus ... good 20 trashbags full of them, enough for a 4-foot by 8-foot ballpit, a ... job of designing and constructing a 4 by 8 foot pit, too! Someone

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  top of everything else the class assigned. By the end of the semester ... month long IAP course taught by the Office of Minority Education. This ... you many of resources like offering you hosting space where you can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  ) then how much CO2 is produced by burning one kilogram of coal? I had a ... This semester I'm taking a class called "Sustainable Energy," and so far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  thousands of documents. By not calling or emailing about this at this time, we ... , for all of their hard work on processing all of the documents! ... The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough ... artists here, among students and faculty. And there are incredible resources ... Scholars outside of the Metropolitan Opera     ...and before

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

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  user interfaces. We read a couple of papers published in 1990 (!) by ...  "Heuristic Evaluation of User Interfaces" by Jakob Nielson and Rolf Molich  Pooling people ... authors do this by classifying each pixel of the input depth map as

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018