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  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... , outsource training to machines, and use our time to start mentoring—a ... Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell ... the periodic table How to make a perfectly cooked steak How to make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  was awarded to MIT Professor Peter A. Diamond, along with Dale T ... committee are mysteries to me, but if I had to hazard a guess, it'd be to Tim ... 18 is a fine number, especially when it counts years. It's an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  appreciate your taking a few seconds to cast your vote and bring my idea closer ... . =) So, here's the deal: Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby ... receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  couple during the 1920's that decides to throw a party to make themselves ... to watch. Like I've said before, I am not a great photographer, but ... really impressed. Last semester I also went to a Gilbert and Sullivan

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  So REX or Residence Exploration began on Sunday afternoon with a ... , Senior House, and Random Hall all came to Kresge Oval with slingshots ... for their own contraption. Sunday night, East Campus threw a party

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note ... -so-secret artistic talent that can be celebrated"]Nobody is going to do a great job

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... ’s major be one’s identity; my major is a fun thing I like to do, a way to pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the ... if you’re looking for a detailed curriculum, go to http ... Python programming and circuit theory in order to control a robot. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... relationship. Anthony's take: this looks like a *very* promising way to get well

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a ... . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the ... , REX is a time to enjoy yourself, meet as many people as possible, first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... 171 parent-friendly events in the schedule. If a visit to the site or a ... backchan.nl, a creation of MIT's Media Lab, to let you ask questions, or vote

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  Sloan's Back to the Classroom series in 2005, a little more than a year ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to Hollywood directors to auto mechanics and constructor workers and teachers

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007