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Blog / About Decisions
Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.
architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while -
Blog / MIT Life
Saturday at the water park
off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond
"lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the -
Blog / How to Human
a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess
companies are doing work I want to be part of; which technologies are being ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert -
Blog / Events
Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014
of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... Storify, or via #MIT2014 on your social media system of choice. I must ... of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first -
Blog / Events
A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…
myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is
microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
We, the people
science and technology. One of the biggest reasons I turned down a job on ... As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar -
Blog / Academics & Research
Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability
founder and CEO of Sela. Sela is a technology company born out of Chi Nnadi ... penetration of mobile technology and connectivity in rural regions. Hassan ... some of the first government-sponsored adoption of blockchain technology -
Blog / Classes
tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet
After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not out of not wanting to, but nothing manifested even if I got a few lines -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people
This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.
're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly -
Blog / Athletics
Photophobic
As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I -
Blog / Events
Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.
of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems ... in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long -
Blog / Academics & Research
Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.
. These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (
States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology ... National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of -
Blog / Challenges
Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience
: I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since -
Blog / MIT Life
Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…
. Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can -
Blog / Admissions
That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.
Appropriate Technology & Sustainable Development Fair, 6pm, Thursday CPW ... , 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in ... :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW
