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  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... surprisingly well. If you’ve never used it I can’t promise it’ll make you fluent overnight but it’s a great and free way to start learning (Duolingo please

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  Vegas. I had the chance earlier to go to CES but I passed on it. A group ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... kicking in. It's one thing to follow the news on the Internet and tweet at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... retrospect a bit impolite. It happened a little over three years ago, when I ... to immediately re-open it to e-mail my mom, sprinted outside to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... record a class and do it over. After a frightening semester of flying ... charged gyroscopes inside washing machines with changing magnetic fields. It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  : Early Move-In So it turns out Virginia is a fairly long drive from MIT ... having fun is one of my favorite things about this school because it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  major, but with so many fantastic departments it's hard to go wrong. Still ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... experiments, we're trying to shed some light on how infants become social. In

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  . But I write with a heart that is also full of anguish – because it is ... us treasure and care for that community – and let us work to make it ... today, they have all said it better than I can, so I instead of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... friends back home. This is how our conversation went down:Friend: What ... really... MIT PSETS ARE HARD. Helpful, but HARD. It's absolutely true that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  get over how cool it is that the Pilgrims might have gotten off their ... was kind of sad, because I like sitting in the graveyard -- it makes me ... 're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  insults). But for the most part, it didn’t matter. Crucially, it didn ... familiarity with each other, built over the years by shared routine, made it ... , crystallized into an axiom by years of interaction, was one so blatant it was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much, but it was nice. Two hours later, it looked like there were rain puddles

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech ... -to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... obtain the transportation patterns of individuals, perhaps using it to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don't show up ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a suitcase and sell it at places like Target for $49.99 or so. Three hours and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ... , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  different stations at MIT, summer plans, how much Chinese we each know. At the ... current job market). It was really nice to meet so many people with

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  started last year with 50 girls, 2 teachers, and 1 city. This year it is 600 ... strategic and some less so, about how to solve this problem. Déspues, I, my co

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life is 6'014 km away from the 'Tvte. Time flies (seriously), and I ... thought it'd be fun to put together a study vlog captured during a recent

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  ), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here ... shaping my post-graduation plans and career goals. By observing how

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with ... ." (Well, technically it's a simile, but who's counting?)

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006