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  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch ... students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and spread more or less evenly across 2016s, 2017s, and 2018s. I'm coteaching

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are ... August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... applications, there much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... new material between the last test and the final), meaning I had an 18

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  inexpensive OLED displays, which offer highly dynamic and lifelike motion. That ... in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... as “squash and stretch” and “secondary motion” in the 30’s. Such

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... ’- another frank excuse. I was taking discrete math and fundamentals of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly ... about something, in the shower or while walking home from school, and then ... fragments and bits of rhyme and little sketches of silly little science

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... and things, with small instructions and reminders and smiley faces. And ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  dedicating $150 billion over 10 years for a new clean energy R&D and technology fund. This initiative represents "the largest and most important investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1 ... : In-N-Out, Asian food, sourdough bread, cheaper prices, and Home. The past few weeks ... -to-5, cooking, and adulting (read: making sure I pay my bills on time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if you’re not the punter. My name is Lucy and I’m a junior ... students. It’s been a week since we came and classes are starting

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  Broad Institute and asked if she could bring her entire class to the talk ... Institute, and is affiliated with many local hospitals. Eli and Edythe L ... are posted on the MIT events calendar), and they usually are are very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Senior Week, we celebrate the graduating class and provide them with their ... Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And ... offers to work there (last year's most popular employer, if you're curious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out ... Bio, Computational and Systems Bio, Developmental Bio, Genetics

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... 'd keep and what you'd change. I'd also love to know what you feel is ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  mechanical and ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her ... from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  brothers' souls and minds, members of the Massachusetts Institute of ... : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever ... Jimmy and Howard Brown. The part of the article that most touched me was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  offers, and this year becomes the toughest year in our history. And so ... I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  Practice, which offers real-world technology cases and projects from partner ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending Spring 2018 abroad, especially because Switzerland and chocolate. My

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017