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

  

  limited global impact, promote repetitive work, and reward only productivity ... possible, allows for a personalized work path, and promotes innovation ... , but students do not have assigned seats and are encouraged to move

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... any work, but then life happened and school exploded and my to-do list ... externship listings, including positions with alumni working at Apple, Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  may not watch other works of the director in the future, including Elvis ... our best creation). When harmonizing proved not-as-good-as-expected, we ... played video games, and I attempted to work. Upon opening my eyes the next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , you will gain fifteen pounds more than you would have gained not ... working out. So if you've been listening for these past few blog entries ... questions and he's been glad to oblige. He's not at all stuffy, though. One

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  output and composition of the products. Our work is not so much theoretical ... what an organic chemist does only for fun." Well, that's not entirely accurate, but it is true that the work done by a chemical engineer usually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  I did it again. I broke my right foot. Well not really, it's just ... out of my mind. I am taking not one, not two, not three, not four - FIVE ... started to hurt to walk. However, it did not hurt to run. Then there was a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... of the System Integrators,[/annotation] which was a lot of work, but so

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  our weekly house clean-up from 11 to 12. After that, I settle in to work ... , and spend my Saturday afternoon and evening just working away. Sunday Inevitably, Sunday, I have more work left over than I thought. I also often

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  connecting with friends, working out, cooking, exploring Boston (if you're on ... [/caption] I worked as a software engineering extern at Microsoft (more specifically, I worked on the Responsible AI Team within the larger Azure Machine

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  was an mit student again. i took four and a half classes and worked a ... for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of very fancy automatic control systems at work, like variable ...  the international space station or the air force. this year, we're working on a medium ... and ethnographic fieldwork. mary gray defines ethnography as "not trying

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  Solving are working together to create a place for students to experience research mathematics and discover ideas that did not exist before. If you ... who I work with semifrequently as an MIT admissions officer.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  , explosive. You cannot think. You cannot do work. You need help. This week was ... are here and now and nothing can hurt you. Grounding works like this ... two. Leaf three." Until I lose count, and if I am still not feeling

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... -nighter working on a final paper. Some of the other old friends I caught up with are ... aside, those Stanfordites are all right. They're working for the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  icebreakers... That may or may not have ended in some violent pool ... crazed passion for what you're working on. (Note: if you have any specific ... or you're working on your fourth company. A great takeaway I got from

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  on the bus, I realized that everything I do - work, blogs, grad school ... work and fun) and when something is done, I only cross-out never delete ... form a new economic model revolving around not money but our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... exhibit in February of the work of New York-based artist Cheyney Thompson ... days, hard work, and plenty of laughs. Baby Monkey was sent in someone

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  Bay. In second place was Boulder, Colorado. (Not) surprisingly ... , with 14.1% of all working people in STEM occupations. Are you wondering ... UROP. As I work from home. In the third geekiest city ever, mind you.)

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main activities for the past two weeks have been working during the day, working at ... trust them not to really stab him, etc. He also told us an amusing story

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  timesheets we're supposed to keep for 2.009, I've spent THIRTY HOURS working on ... 're working on. So here's a small taste- expect a full entry about it sometime ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008