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  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... activist collective out of Latin America. How do we use data and technology ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  Technology) events, snapping pictures of different installations and checking ... rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  , innovation, and all of science and technology. When the staffer in charge of ... , universities (including MIT and Harvard) and teaching hospitals. 1/5 of Nobel ... . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  My sophomore fall I took an STS (science, technology, and society) writing class with Sherry Turkle, STS.043 (Technology and Self: Science, Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  few hours, woke up, rolled out of bed, splashed my face with cold water ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards the end of the panel, I introduced myself and asked them what they felt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  program associated with the University of Grenoble. It sounds really fun ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial city of [annotation note="fun fact Alexander Hamilton founded Paterson

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  trading and technology sectors of a quantitative finance company through ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... use by MISTI - MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets, shirts, buttons, dinners, posters,, CDs, etc. One of these citizens of P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6 ... son of the president of the United States falling in love with the prince of Wales. I devoured the book in two days, and after I finished, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... . _____________ One of the best things that I have found about the MIT community over

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it ... experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  spells “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” in Arabic. Yeah, you wish ... enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it. Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008