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Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience
talk, but I'll link to one if it arises, and in the meantime, I'll update ... . With this award, we will honor work that impacts society in positive ways ... a living person or group engaged in what we believe is extraordinary -
Blog / Academics & Research
HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one
I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... We’ve just opened registration (and our puzzle!). You can find both at -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus
in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want ... foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example ... writing and the visual arts. But more importantly, we believe that we can -
Blog / Academics & Research
Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.
So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon. -
Blog / Academics & Research
2.670 Summary
to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time -
Blog / Athletics
(K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics
- and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the -
Blog / Events
Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere
booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... at Ring Delivery in April. When I got my sample ring, it was too small ... the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime
is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan ... Strokes) Top 100 songs playlists: i concur with abby's taste in music New ... toward the music I listened to (ad infinitum) in 2017. 2017 was also the -
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Are volunteer opportunities available?
At the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG Center), you can connect with a variety of public service projects in local, national, and global communities. The PKG Center can also provide guidance -
Blog / Academics & Research
“Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan
the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I ... expressions, Prof Mahajan suggests that we can, in fact, measure the entropy of -
Blog / Admissions
Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.
. In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best way to fill this out. Do your best to place things where you think they -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film
, as you can see in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ostFopE24 ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the -
Blog / Uncategorized
a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?
; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight." 2. n ... .” 4. v working in a urop. “This summer I’m uroping in an EAPS lab ... certain if I have ever heard it referred to in words. People say ".009" or -
Blog / Admissions
The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...
interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it -
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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY
While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
also wrote: In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives. Whatever the outcome, I very much hope that in our interactions with one another, we can hold -
Blog / Admissions
CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…
Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the
