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  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  interaction design to either improve an existing solution or address an ... . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... for two reasons: 1) We would be working on designing an application for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  investors? We will explore these and other issues through readings, data ... . Professor: Peter Temin format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week, one 1 hour ... , stock valuation, bankersТƒф loan risk assessment, and evaluations of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  time. Not only will they keep your mind away from agonizing circular ... , and learned a lot more about current research, global problems, and ... any of you guys watched these or other TED talks before? Here you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... -class research because it's also the place where you live and play and work and buy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  graduation data showing that students who lived at senior house during their ... dorms. this data was used to justify two decisions: first, to prohibit new ... based on these data alone,” the senior officers added in their letter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  , economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or ... mutually agreed-upon transaction or contract. Acts of theft and fraud are ... , or 1 = 2, or more generally that one number equals a different number

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  over will be there." So, I made a mental pro's and con's list:   ... people will buy the solution. Artificial intelligence is new and exciting ... out 2000 products, you will only make 2000 x the price of your product

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... concert. Concerts typically sell general admissions tickets, alternately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Where does one buy MIT textboooks? The Coop definitely sells textbooks ... that this email address will be seen by all your friends, professors, and ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  reach out to him and the UEA at [email protected] or me at azukibean ... . And so with this mathematician's brain, I discovered Economics, or “the ... this idea or why I thought it would work, but it did and I got hooked on

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  much better place to buy cell phones or get service, just let me know and ... might want to look into getting a new area code or a different carrier ... people have similar trouble with T-Mobile, which is unsurprising since even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  agricultural sustainability across the global system. Just the other day through ... MITFAC website. 1) Can you offer a seasonal menu featuring locally grown ... ’? 2) Can you cater a meal using all or mostly certified organic

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  convinced that MIT students have the ingenuity to address global poverty. Thus did the Global Poverty Initiative (GPI) come into being. I first ... people who want to set up businesses or avail themselves of other economic

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , mechanical engineering, or political science that I will not be able satisfy ... , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive ... these, please go to whereis.mit.edu, or read this helpful CJ blog post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... The proposed wiki would describe the following for every pressing global

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  , branded, impersonal, magical, historic or tragic. I'd call Friday something ... analyzing the success of Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy and selling staplers ... to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  's challenge was to use their new Marvel API in your project. 1000 ... the ConsenSys talk, learning how to integrate a software called MetaMask ... do or quit moment. I had quit my first hackathon and I wasn't going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  This winter, before arriving at my [annotation note="Global Teaching ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  1.5 years physically at MIT and my one splendid Zoom U semester, I ... , work with admissions, or do some stuff in student government… which ... ’s interesting how much having a good/bad teacher can make or break one’s opinion

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  3V0IvqW We love to build very strange things for type 1 or 2 fun at ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... -paper, like "cross words", or [annotation note="anagramming"]moving the letters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024