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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland, Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make

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

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some ... what to call; that's okay too.    We'll

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... books from as early as the 1400s to as recent as the 1980s, but ... remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... what it means to actually learn from mistakes. Relationships, personal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some ... embarrassingly MIT? we're lucky to have some people share their good news. there

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we ... with 81 cards, sets of 3, and more insanity. It also happens to be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring ... lot more things to consider than I addressed in these few panels.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... 's to come. I don't think this is going to be one of those posts. I don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014