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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  , and Freedom University (a college for undocumented students).   ... Institute director and biology professor David Page on the evolution of the Y ... (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my ... soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... ." And it did work. And even today, more than 20 years later, it still does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  least pass everything, and as we learned a few weeks ago, D is for Diploma ... which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact ... , because I've been doing nothing at all and it's been utterly fantastic. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  looked so big and put-together. With grueling institute requirements and ... remember wrapping up my freshman fall and thinking it took so much life out ... endured their time, had a stronger sense of their futures, and were much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings ... (MOOC) provider, created by MIT and Harvard and used by over 70 educational institutions. Now MIT is implementing the latest educational

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... possible and set aside time during our weekend to have fun CPW events like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  [by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... National Conclave (NATCON), was hosted in Chicago, IL this year and was

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In ... nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then toss in a couple hundred ultra math nerds, and a couple hundred more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  education to the public through longstanding institutions like OCW and MITx ... media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... nanotechnology are Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering (Courses 2, 20, and 3) - but Physics (Course 8) and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  Summer is well under way, and no child’s vacation is complete without ... , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  Turkey's development lagged that of the United States and other ... contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date ... during a tumultuous period of economic crises and political unrest, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I ... doing them and felt that they were the most helpful part of the course! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home. Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where I am working in the National Human Genome Research Institute. More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  chronicle this week's adventures and realized that I was about to write a blog entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  undergraduates at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, was first used ... if you want a ring, too (provided you live in the United States and ... evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free ... offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... the good, and a proportion lower than the social optimum will get the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  than lolcats...hopefully. This year's theme is poverty, and a couple of ... : Wow, great examples, Cristen and Laura, thanks so much for posting those. I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Institute of MIT and Harvard was headed up by David Reich (also an assistant ... , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... From Chimps?The split between the human and chimpanzee lineages may have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... final project state machine draft, top left. 6.031 exam crib sheet, top

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017