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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ... but remember, the entropy of the universe increases in all natural ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced ... your floor's chances of winning by entering in all five! Happy Cooking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  danger and the urgency of being on the highway was not new to us. Three ... oppression in the courtroom. New forms of redlining, enabled by "big data" and ... suppression. New forms of racism demand new forms of activism and resistance

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  important. At a practical level, I understand that many of you may have ... lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students ... public interest, the educational trajectories of our prospective students

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... Turing machine, which is a form of universal type of machine that can ... on a range by looking at the range of values it takes, picking subsets

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  was bad at coding. I wasn't like some of these kids in Course 6. I didn ... think that's a common theme of my time here at MIT. During my time in high ... comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  , at the insistence of one of Charles Schulz's friends. The friend sent ... at the Peanuts table. There are countless stories of people reading the ... at historically black colleges and universities across the US. There

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I can now read blog posts from OpenAI and understand at least some of ... derivative of GPT-2 is dubbed Robo-CJ. He’s pretty bad at coherent sense, but ... so detached from the larger context of our universe. I hate the idea of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... friends seemed like a nearly impossible concept. At the beginning of FPOP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  's room. Now the concept of spraying water at each other *indoors* seems ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  scholars and will spend two or three years of graduate study at Oxford ... biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  of a scientist or engineer is what makes artists at MIT so good at ... tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  This summer my friends (who are around, instead of doing cool internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  through the online reply form at MyMIT. You have three choices: tell us you're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious. Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas ... Mesopotamians were at the pinnacle of metallurgy and urban living, 500 years ago

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  words or phrases have been banned at the university.” Even so, it's pretty ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most prestigious universities to support it - at least in formal settings - is big

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006