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

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a ... , and no set program for students to follow. 42 is a physical space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  comment: “you can actually tell that people live here!” It’s funny how much ... , dorm residents would be fined if they so much as stuck a tack in the wall ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known ... .[/annotation] Since 9 AM on a weekend is absurdly early for most people, the first ... much faster than I need to be going at this point in the walk, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , like how to do laundry, or how to not burn a pot of spaghetti are ... Buford about how he left his job as a writer to work under Mario Bartoli at ... wanted was to learn how to cook in a professional kitchen. Long story

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ... although I don't know how much he'll be able to say -- he is funded by the ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  , such as to make a valuation on how costly traffic is (just in terms of ... This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... section[/annotation] is “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (lyrics) by Mike Posner

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  , Mirchi) Above anything else, Mirchi is a family! We spend so much time ... is a super high-energy folk dance that originates from the Indian state Punjab; it’s lit and so is this team! MIT Mirchi — a Bollywood fusion

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... + years ago (12/13/14, actually, which is a cool date) about my MIT decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  : [caption id="attachment_59233" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] there is a ... ; Spotify also gave some interesting stats on how much you stan your favorite ... At this point, Blogger Wrapped posts are sort of becoming a tradition

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... worked for the last several years, I have a much better appreciation for ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  -D/CI-H and a small, advanced class. It is not an easy class, and Manning is ... recitations (or tutorials, in a class that has them). Pretty much any department ... , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  it, but now that I've seen how impactful it is, I'm hooked. When I ... maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which ... how huge the undertaking is—given how limited the materials Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  Friday? This is weeked was a great example of how you can accomplish so ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  !) So what is a poetry slam, anyway? It's a 25 year old movement of spoken ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  pass is a pass! The Thanksgiving trip was only a week away at this point ... test as a sign that I needed much more practice, so I signed up for a few ... in Boston is MIT. The roads here are so much more chaotic, and there

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  to learn CAM. Manufacturing a yo-yo is fairly complicated. We ... . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my ... Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... mundane; I give a summary of how the day went, jot down any thoughts or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the ... this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is ... approximately a majillion proteins in spines, and each person in my lab is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the ... Boston is supposed to be a place of good seafood. Do not go here for good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019