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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  with you all. Here's a video of the speech, and below is the text. For ... solve, and we look to each other, other people, when we search for ... , and give it to the villages]   Or maybe working with China to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  fell in love with Chinese at MIT. And for a soundtrack - press play on ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel ... around the language and watching native Chinese faces with their look of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For ... an essay about the process and whatnot, or both? 2. For the ... is no specific section for a project report, and we will not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... with that logic. Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Emeritus Charles Vest introduces Friedman. A big crowd shows up for the ... available at MIT World. EDIT: Friedman closes his talk: "Go out and export ... Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  and sent me a reminder when I opened my browser.   I looked at ... sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z: task X takes 3 hours and one person. task Y takes 1 hour and one person

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  Labs, a French tech startup, and they were looking for MIT undergraduates ... with investors, executives, and doing other mysterious professional CEO-y ... . And so, on January 4th, I flew into Las Vegas with Seiji and Romain for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  've been cataloging and evaluating these tactics and I've come to a ... study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... effective however (and this is only applicable for any students or staff who

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  on Monday and Friday, since that leaves me with a solid four-hour block ... ), which are designed to allow for sustained and/or creative thought on a ... for you guys. :) Although MIT's online course catalog has a pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... such a clear "because x then y" format. But it’s also filled with

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... analysis: 18.100A, 18.100B, 18.100P, and 18.100Q. A few things of note: i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item ... -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  for MIT, (2) interactions I wouldn’t have otherwise, and (3) an eye for ... ='technically, every class gets a custom ring with their year and class-specific design ... event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  immune systems and competing with the track and field team as a pole ... the blog, and the rest was history. a HUGEE shoutout to angie for ... cool. it was also fun to go to a meet farther away and travel with the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  be viewed on MITWorld... look for it there in a few weeks. I'm signing ... you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while ... develop grand, often crazy, ideas; he started often with his designs for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  tell us your passions any why you a great fit and match for MIT. It ... like Who's who and being a Presidential Scholar?" These are both nice ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus! (for even more Q&A, check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  .125 focuses more on theory and 11.131 focuses on practical issues. For instance ... teacher interacts with the students. Please look through MIT's course catalog and let me know what classes interest you (and what you are

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued ... Magnet – It’s the year 1999, and a bunch of groups thinks that the Y2K ... of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  it for a while, which I have found both heartening and fascinating ... ’m currently sharing a table with someone working hard and taking pictures. It is ... threw for a touchdown!” [carousel image1="84397" image2="84396" image3

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023