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  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I’ve been chugging work from such a consistent, ever-so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me.…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i’ve been a huge fan…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  the semester just started, but it hardly feels like school’s really in session yet. the snow’s only just turned to rain and we’ve had two snow days in the last…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Realidad Aumentada en Acción un paso antes de los hologramas

  

  La realidad aumentada es la tecnología que le permite superponer objetos digitales en mundo real. Y es extremadamente emocionante!   He estado siguiendo la realidad aumentada y la realidad virtual…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  just (literally six minutes ago) got back from being a research ... windowless white walled hospital room for science research (ugh). It is a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  Cue Monday afternoon. I’m hungry because I decided to not spend money for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin’ through the Stata Center, when out…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It’s 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam which is later today, but instead I’m blogging. [insert pass/no record joke here] Term is in full…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  MIT’s (in)famous fall career fair is this coming Friday…which means campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies. People are lining up in Lobby…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn’s new headquarters…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can’t think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote this…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT   If you know anything about startups, you know Y Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  “The Social Enterprise Conference brings together top leaders, practitioners, and students passionate about social enterprise. In our 17th year, the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social Enterprise…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend and ate…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take classes you enjoy? My schedule this semester is half Aero/Astro and half Comparative Media Studies (CMS): 16.35 is…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  Opportunities abound for student entrepreneurs amongst the MIT community. Today I’d like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund run by students for students. At DRF,…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I like writing. I like writing about issues at school, like mental health, and I like writing poetry about my own issues and passions. I like writing seriously, creatively, and/or…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A – “Exceptionally good performance…” B –…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary education through OpenCourseWare. Then came edX, a massive online…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015