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  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate ... . At my advanced age my pace of eating has slowed down somewhat (though I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver ... which they got rich, of course. You hear all kinds of stories about MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... , finals...), and several doses of caffeine lie between me and that fateful ... ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  BREAKING NEWS: Stu Schmill '86 Named New Dean of Admissions - go wish ... students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... an RAA and I can confidently say that they are a group of really great

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a restaurant was how we spent 7.89% of our trip. Come on, we're MIT students

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  consisting entirely of "little people," and at least two of them are apparently engaged in some sort of war. Hey all, sorry about the relative dearth of ... preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew impatient and consumed the rest of the lollipop in two swift chomps. Freedom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005