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  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... blogs seem to indicate, not everyone participates, or even intends to ... student groups try to fit in one last activity before IAP comes to an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like ... don't have to look at them or pause awkwardly to wave because they don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... attempted to move the holiday earlier in the year to increase the length of ... their physics knowledge to train the handlers in keeping the balloons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate ... . ... Without laws of nature to anchor them, algorithms used in such subjective ... television to broadcasting." In other words, analogies matter. They form the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  went to rehearsal for the final project in dance, played in a badminton ... actually enrolled in, and to a pretty good degree of certainty we think we ... before turning them in for good. If I don't sound terribly grateful to the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au ... tawk? DISCLAMER: THIS BLOG IS NOT THE PLACE TO WORK OUT POLITICAL OR ... then I've held several positions, all related in some way to minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... " to education on just a couple of schools or just a couple of ... product a success when it sold to the teachers or to the schools. What about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  "]FPOPs[/annotation] that I participated in or TA-ed, like my trips to Yellowstone. While not ... Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer ... doing my thesis in. My work focuses on molecular fossils, or biomarkers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  term, or even one or two in the fall. I guess it depends on the four-year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being ... I just presented some intercultural communication challenges in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... going to go out to dinner or something to celebrate, but we had already ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... building wells in an Ethiopian village, or something simple, like watching a ... that you need to come in a rocket scientist, not at all. But you will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or ... , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  to prove anything to anyone. Or that I'm only in CS because I think ... mindset. But as I've been home in quarantine, I've had a lot of time to ... think they're cool." In an effort to help him find some sort of direction

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  the student to engage in teaching and/or research in furtherance of the ... or fellowships, so let me bring you up to speed: Astronomy Graduate ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  boyfriends, rush to qualify their partners with “he’s really aware” or “I’m his first Asian girlfriend” or some other statement meant to say: he’s not one ... date’s uncle that I was from China instead of Portland, or was it due to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021