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  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  "The Social Enterprise Conference brings together top leaders ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera has ... Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. The Student Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  Sport air pistol, the PE class I took this quarter, was taught by instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is the first semester he's teaching air pistol. The class begins its

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT ... , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Homestretch: The Final Weeks A hand-drawn doodle post about classes and stuff

  

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the ... ? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert Report" this week. Let's hope the famous Colbert Bump helps us find those

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the Undergraduate Association Senate. As its name suggests, the Undergraduate

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It ... Hunt! "The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight" is the team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Once again, the New York Times has written about gifted education, this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some time and read it, you won't regret it: The Prodigy Puzzle I'm glad the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a pact is a pact). :-) Enjoy these other pics from the day's festivities

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Idiots! MIT hacked the poll! "MIT won in a landslide!"

  

  Today’s Doonesbury…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say "finally" because I'm pretty sure I actually bought the book at the MIT Press Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  .... I wish I could be the perfect [beaver] But I come back to the ... ] Every [deadline] I make, [Mass Ave] leads back To the place I know, where ... the skyline over the past year. Below is the product: a unique look at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a total solar eclipse, the Moon covers the Sun completely, blocking all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017