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  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... here's the course description: "You choose the title, we improvise a 5

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work ethic and a phenomenally operatic R&B singing voice, has graciously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  people standing around a tripod of some sort. I wasn't terribly concerned ... completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we ... -anxiety college admissions process. The academy discusses this in a new book, Less

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  . We honor Squanches and eat a whole lot of pancakes. Perhaps one of ... all. Here is a story about Derp Cat's intelligence. One day, Derp Cat ... part of his window was stuck open and without a screen. Today, this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  opinion, this is a fact. Just as the sun rotates around the earth……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... will be able to find a home here at MIT. Recently, Professor of Music

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I ... was always like this as a child, although MIT has exacerbated my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the ... against other students! MIT has a really cool Wall Street-style trading ... -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the ... different planning projects: working for a neighborhood advocacy group, blight ... encompasses a variety of different specializations, ranging from urban design to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the BioMedical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  classes on Thursday - I started writing this entry. =p Summer 2008 was a ... , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan. Went on a volunteer health trip with a medical group (think Doctors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... and password.   In order to verify that you will receive a ... things happen to people who don't verify they will receive their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  , I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... are ready!  In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... things happen to people who don't verify they will receive their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  just say w00t? In commemoration of this momentous event, with a nod ... For those who don't yet know, two important, possibly life ... a related note, I've received word that some of my fraternity brothers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove ... ." Unfortunately, my taste buds aren't sophisticated enough to tell what kind of wood

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a ... were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn't ... When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here ... or her a call or write him or her an email. You should do this, not one ... : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005