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  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the ... the living room being a place for my “experiments.” I grew up gluing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... for the Institvte, which explains its high ceilings and open spaces ... and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... , drawing & writing, the human proclivity for storytelling I hate: bad

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  conference hosted at The Hague. I'm a fellow at the National Center for ... info sessions. This is/was the only full week I had in the office for two ... , which was pioneered by the Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  either some social bot, tool, or dataset + visualization for the project. I opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had ... bathroom and any comments they may have. I kept the survey open for about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  class and providing motivation for learning the material (Peter Fisher ... Weinberg, the other 7.012 lecturer (he was in the audience for the first ... times a week, we meet as a whole class for lecture, and the main lecturer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  professor that I've had the pleasure of learning from for the past three ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... watched the petals helplessly fall away. I wondered if they looked back at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  Sorry for the massive blog entry - this should have probably been ... . :-) ------------------------------------------------------- Campus Preview Weekend Registration Deadline The deadline to register for ... /14). ------------------------------------------------------- Facebook Group For Admitted Students The facebook group for admitted students

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  supposedly left before ours. So after walking in the woods looking for the campsite for a half hour, we finally settled at the fire pit by the cabin and ... MITOC rules and regulations for renting out the campsite, of course). Our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  ! Anywho, here's a quick wrap-up of the telethon. @Carmen/Jing Jing As for ... 7:17 pm Tonight is the EA admit telethon, wherein we spend all night ... guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for ... , looking up at the skylight with the bright March sky shining through it, we ... Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 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…

  

  )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for ... for myself this year, so I jumped at the opportunity to make my own ... of the instructors joked about it looking very appetizing but being

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the Blogs, and Make History poster for Admissions), designing the admitted

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... and facilitating things for the transfer admissions committee. Congrats

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release ... thesis research for him on my own for the next three months, so nobody ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  slowly making sense. Apologies for breaking the Zaxxon rule with this one ... . Click HERE for a nice ELI10 of the problem. The First Law Trilogy After ... break I started looking around for more fantasy books to fill my time and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  impromptu event you didn't have to register for. The dark matter lecture I ... of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating ... gallivanted down the Charles, looking at our shining Institvte across the frozen

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  Essay -  this is one of the two classes I'm taking "for fun". I don ... -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new ... : Science, Technology, and Memoir - this is the other class I'm taking for fun

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice ... grades. I look at the self-reported coursework form to see what courses you ... office, where it will be available for a second read before going to the

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

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  these topics. Check your CP* guide for the link! This year, to show off ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020