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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  the marketplace. The center empowers some of MIT’s most talented ... technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of ... The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation provides grants and
• 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 / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... the Broad Institute, Co-Chair of Obama's President's Council on Science ... abroad during the summer or IAP can come back and present to the rest of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions ... Robert Goodman '75 - New Jersey Teacher of the YearBrewster Kahle '82 - founder of the Internet ArchiveGlen Fleisig '84 - "one of the best practicioners of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was straightforward, but winning them was not. The top-ranked players of each game were ... response was determined by the collective responses of all the other players

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), MIT hosted the inaugural "Taste of SHASS ... opportunities. The goal of the event was to help survey the kind of work done at ... fields with MIT; our co-identification with STEM is a core strength of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... / Fishbone / Five Fingers of Funk 1997: Battle of the Bands (no headliner) 1996 ... Trick / 'til tuesday 1983: The Tubes 1982: The Ramones 1980: Battle of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice ... ) < P(Gimmel on the dreidel). Chetan asked a series of interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... the midst of a multi-part snow battle. The first two battles involved

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality! Check out an incredible piece of graphic art from Ms. Star Simpson of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of ... oxygen on the vacant end of each double bond - and voila, ozonolysis. There ... my fair share of Brawl matches. It goes without saying that both the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  for the month of February, was created and curated by her (with some art ... , here’s some notable parts and video work of the exhibition:     What’s the name of your gallery, Holly? Holly: Well it’s funny

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... and Diseases of the Nervous System, 1-4pm—the final elective I need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar ... Professor of Comparative Media Studies Henry Jenkins (also Housemaster of the ... -line summary of the film: "It was a geeky, MIT-type of film." In many ways, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004