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  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... staples of daily life. The French students do the same in their own language

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology ... Rodney Brooks. Call me an idealist, but my favorite of the responses is

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... . This reminds me that we haven't officially announced that all of the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on ... would be your projected MIT Commencement dates: MIT Class of 2009: Friday, June 5, 2009 MIT Class of 2010: Friday, June 4, 2010 Things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... success, and over 700 members of our 1000-person class attended! Here are 10 of the 12 members of Ring Committee. This is the outside of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they're Canadian ... , and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple of props from my favorite movies/comics. The first shelf holds the crux of my media collection. It starts off with some classic newspaper

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and ... in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku ("Jungle Water") The brainchild of Kendra Johnson '09, Sacha Yaku aims to empower the women of Santa Ana

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion ... success. Although some of my fellow MIT students view our exchange as

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... defines as the “sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth ... residual sickness, my last sneeze was during the writing of blog post and I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... hug them. Not sure if that last sentence was full of wisdom or just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... been a core course in mechanical engineering at MIT. Our own Dean of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016