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  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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of ... first week of classes. CMS.S60 Rap Theory and Practice I'm taking two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over 15 years of experience in the financial aid and student financing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  -four designers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. One semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I’ve recorded in the semi-permanent realm of the blogosphere (who are we kidding ... the future. Finals week will mark the end of an era and slowly, one by

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011