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

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research opportunities. The goal of the event was to help survey the kind of work done at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New England about the same time so I was able to show them almost immediately

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you ... nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the ... " sticker on it. I continue to yank. 3. Victory! The lock comes off! 4

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  compare all of the applications together than to have an early and regular ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot ... Students' Association executive boards, together, after our annual Utopia ... where the boat leaves and returns to. And the MIT Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... intimidated by the great scholar. Just last week the king had stood up to honor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and symphonies. my attention span has gotten worse over the years, to the point ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually ... , but I've been doing that since way before my app ever made it to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  processing! My job is to work together with some other people with ... to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate?" "Yeah, sure." Liz and I filled out our rooming forms together -- single sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  . To see The coming together of things.   Then Tuesday at 1pm I ... it came together, finally. So Wednesday I went to check out our new ... I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  signals causes the neurons related to the game to become active again during ... classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013