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No Child Gets Ahead?
established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... some of the nation's most successful magnet schools -- but I am glad that the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted -
Blog / Events
Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share
embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment ... night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the ... least"-->five minutes of improv. The prompts I received were so good -
Blog / Admissions
Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to ... creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... 's research, outlined in her project "Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic -
Blog / Admissions
Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer
below the timings for information sessions and campus tours at MIt & ... listed are for the information session, to be followed by a tour, unless ... & August additional tours offered prior to Info Session at 9am and 1 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…
I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known -
Blog / Miscellaneous
What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky
2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... – that the finite often comes clamping down on ideas of infinity -
Blog / Academics & Research
First day of school The first day of school
Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my ... the motion of polyatomic molecules) -Linda Griffith (a Biological -
Blog / How to Human
I watched the sunrise this morning
one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ... of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on that doesn't mean I don't matter I'm no insignificant blip in the -
Blog / Athletics
There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…
’ve recorded in the semi-permanent realm of the blogosphere (who are we kidding ... the future. Finals week will mark the end of an era and slowly, one by ... have the consolation of knowing that come fall semester, we will all be -
Blog / Admissions
Keg of worms and phytoplankton
I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... only recall one fisherman (fisherperson?) from the thousands of -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Different Kind of Learning
course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... as the classroom sessions. I anticipate one of the strangest things for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do -
Blog / MISTI
visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.
WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... ) section of the President's House-- [caption id="attachment_46032" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The -
Blog / MIT Life
Two Cool Projects
out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku ("Jungle Water") The brainchild of Kendra Johnson '09, Sacha Yaku aims to empower the women of Santa Ana, Ecuador through the sale of their jewelry and ceramics. It is analogous to -
Blog / Events
The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog
intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... winners of the Hunt, he and his team created the challenges for this year -
Blog / Events
Time Traveling and Teleporting
The Time Traveler Convention keeps getting bigger and bigger. Now, three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national -
Blog / Academics & Research
How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…
considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first -
FAQ / Academics and research
What does the D-Lab do?
D-Lab is building a global network of innovators to design and disseminate technologies that meaningfully improve the lives of people living in poverty. The program’s mission is pursued through interdisciplinary courses -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York
This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is ... the most tangible example of this. One of the first things my roommate -
Blog / Internships & Externships
Battle in The Bay a comic
seeding cells and learning to increase throughput with the use of all kinds ... excited to wake up and make my way to work. The routine has it's own kind of ... adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time
