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Blog / How to Human
a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess
companies are doing work I want to be part of; which technologies are being ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
We, the people
science and technology. One of the biggest reasons I turned down a job on ... As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar -
Blog / Academics & Research
Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability
founder and CEO of Sela. Sela is a technology company born out of Chi Nnadi ... penetration of mobile technology and connectivity in rural regions. Hassan ... some of the first government-sponsored adoption of blockchain technology -
Blog / About Decisions
In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine
following quote: One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each -
Blog / Events
Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014
of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... Storify, or via #MIT2014 on your social media system of choice. I must ... of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people
This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and -
Blog / About Decisions
Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.
architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while -
Blog / MIT Life
Saturday at the water park
off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond
"lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.
quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high -
Blog / Events
A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…
myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle -
Blog / Classes
tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet
After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not out of not wanting to, but nothing manifested even if I got a few lines -
Blog / Academics & Research
The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project
fully understand the consequences of the technologies we wrought upon the ... Each undergrad in MIT majors in one of [annotation note="The numbers ... primary majors as of now."]21[/annotation] numbered courses, from 1: Civil -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is
microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.
're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly -
Blog / Athletics
Photophobic
As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (
States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology ... National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek
buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat -
Blog / Admissions
What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase
something like “Congratulations, man.” He was so against the institution of ... My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a
