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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wall painting! Whenever I can, I try to visit my sister in suburban ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... Minerva has higher standards then Harvard, then how is a student who can ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ="ironically, also something that I can't know for sure until I spend some time in grad ... interview process, but I can't help but think they inform their decision in a ... undergrad app stress and [annotation note="I know how you guys are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  Friday, Nov. 24.” I can’t believe I missed an opportunity to build ... ://www.ebaumsworld.com/tags/arthur-ganson/. His website has a lot of great pictures as well. I’d encourage all of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  installing some sort of video conferencing system. I can hardly believe how ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... , and Rocco try to figure out how to prepare their chicken tetrazzini--I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... in exchange for some research or teaching activities. Last week, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  six hours left and a lot can happen in six hours, but I'm in a better ... out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  you can see the number of posts and how many comments there are, though ... main page. It reads HTML as well so a lot of things can be put in there ... One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... , and finally died at Gallipoli in World War I. Professor Sadoway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  asks: How is food in MIT? I remember you writing about that amazing ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my ... ’s the email I pored over for so long. [caption id="attachment_107005

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  . Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the ... I say I really have no idea. In another example of Secret Santa

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Excitonics explores organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and how they can be ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... because that's how bad information can get out there and can also cause huge

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  week, I start a brief program with D.E. Shaw in their Discovery fellowship this week and I'm really excited! In addition to this, I am also ... undergraduates work in teams of up to 3 and create dynamic websites according to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In ... . In fact, I have a free hour on Fridays before class in 10-250 (right

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018