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  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives ... times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the ... 'm still here in 18 years when she finishes her dissertation, you can bet

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall ... ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your judgmental stares poking my back) but I’ve actually been writing a lot. In fact

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography ... and beyond. The best advice I can give you for the interview is to be ... early. If you're reading this, what are you waiting for? In other news, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... time, i've never actually seen an improv show in person, just read about ... months of waiting, i learned that i got the role. in fact, i was lucky

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  new. I did social media research and sat in on team meetings about it ... some new puzzle prototypes using it. I dabbled in party planning ... and expenses, and I stressed about the rest of my life. In September

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... : … cj: this is my blog post. i'm the interviewer. i'm the one in charge ... . alan: and i'm alan. i'm cj's anxiety. cj: glad to have everyone in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  ; they reflect decisions made by people in power about what and how ... citizens can understand how their data is being used. MALIKA SAADA SAAR ... visceral. human rights abuses happen in silence; technology can help us break

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... . I exaggerate, of course. In sandwich terms (what better terms are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  mountain hiking in a blank? how can you capture the brilliance of a sunrise ... surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... of ihtfp, how it can both mean "i hate this fucking place" and "i have ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis ... : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... in the acknowledgement of lessons and truths I wished were axioms ... psychological ones. In my second blogpost on MIT Admissions, I talked about a grad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  than you can count, I stumbled my way into regularly paying my bills ... that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008