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  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  . This post is just a fraction of the fascinating information I absorbed at ... compilation of initiatives to transform teaching and learning at MIT. And if you ... discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  "]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do ... looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... 'm preserving this image of a CHILD by embedding it here[/caption] On June 5th

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large ... . I wanted a challenge, but I didn't want it at the expense of ... . (This is kind of a duh. But I wasn't thinking of it at the time.) 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... when they threw yet another curveball at me, this time in the form of a ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this ... capricious and an abuse of discretion" on behalf of ICE. The lawyers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  are one of the most painfully complicated things currently at MIT. So ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  enough at those interests to be rewarded with some extrinsic markers of ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... who represented the United States at the International Chemistry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  approximation 0.00237769994 + 0.10368577 i. A lot of departments at MIT have ... out that we'd need to shoot the m&m at about an 18 degree angle at ... got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking member of the Kult of Kamen. One of the (many) things Dean Kamen has said ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester ... '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media ... those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... ; Eat Chipotle (instead of Anna's) (on the daily, if at all possible ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  of my favorite classes at MIT, 4.101 Experiencing Architecture Studio ... on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  says 42 degrees, raining, and crazy windy. So I was sitting at Burton ... degree from MIT within 90 days of each other, really, what can I not do ... 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007