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  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  education is perfect for the modern word. With the ability to outsource ... Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  a tangent for a second, I have to say that one of my absolute favorite ... &-new I personally voted for the "rocking out scientifically" one, just ... you're coming to CPW, be sure to check your schedule for open houses and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  to qualify for the Championship Event in Atlanta. But the competition ... need to go to a regional event and see for yourself. FIRST might just be the best opportunity for aspiring techies to learn not just how to wield

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  . =) Personally though, I'm just going to skip right along to.... 7.012, which is ... really need to finish?) before dismissing us for the day. And now you know ... interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like ... should not do: Fly to campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous ... this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  one of my favorite musicals (Grease!) and to audition for another of my ... to be building another airplane for Design/Build/Fly. I'm moving into a ... I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  person, now, in any number of ways, if I had to replay my life. More ... I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  interested in getting to know me- personally- other than my resume, or my ... to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... for a black woman- me- to say that she mattered- that I mattered

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and implementing capable lovable hand turkeys. For those unfamiliar with the concept ... . "They're for my friends at... uh...nevermind"). 2.) Gather friends and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  for inspiration? Let me introduce you to a few really wonderful ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out ... character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that ... writing was more than a hobby, it is a passion equivalent to my love for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  to head back into the city and catch her flight. She's off for a ... for a scholarship to do research in Heidelberg next year; she said that ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... had to be screened by three different people when I went to check in for ... phones clogging 3G and wifi, and I had to use my phone for phone things as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  less intimidating for auditioners and easier to connect. MTG is doing ... to organize rehearsal and filming for their covers, and then the ... come :000 The Ballroom Dance Team usually goes to (and kicks butt at) in-person

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... ;         I don’t personally know Hendrik, but I do know Brandon. Brandon ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  physical place, to an unsurpassed degree - it's a more natural activity for ... to go between floors - and this makes a dorm famous for introverts ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  ) and her husband in person for the first time. Our cast of performers was ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to ... for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where ... . When I began looking for a place to live five years ago and an alumna

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  location marker for my portion of the observation area next to my writing ... Killian Court to join a recording for a music video, in preparation for MIT ... —this recording session is for the video, so we just have to follow his cues and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021