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  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  question. It was a bit weird to be sitting in the same room with the guy who was responsible for changing the world so significantly. Think about it ... civilization, so he did something about it. I don't think it was ever his plan

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics competition and HawkCam. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode. Check it out: You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  , it's going to be insaneeeely exciting.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a ... . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a ... , it won't be from any evil fraternities like in the episode (non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break! A little guessing game.

  

  At approximately 9.30 pm on Thursday night, Spring Break will begin. I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going? Hint #1: It's not the Pappalardo Lab. (although if I were staying at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  Association has a search engine on its site that lets you search by year, major ... fields. (I put network in quotation marks not because I don't think it's a real word, I just don't like it. There are plenty of good networking

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  liking. I took one bite of it and thought it was pretty gross. (Not gonna lie.) I tried to give it to one of my friends to eat, but no one would take it. Sam and I devised what we think is a clever plan to dispose

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  , etc. B.Good sponsored a spinach eating contest. It was not a sight ... on board that reminded me of my elementary school's cafeteria, it was a lot of fun. I don't know why I'm even posting this picture as it

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On ... , we can smell the garlic. Love is in the air, and it doesn't smell good ... ice cream -- no one's going to buy it if another stand is giving it out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all intentions to do so, we will not be using our waitlist. Our yield was even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt's, pretending to be "YJ" and others, please stop. It's one thing to mess with me or Matt - understandably, we represent MIT, with which you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In ... " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we ... each other. I've been inspired by this statement since I got to MIT. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  . To learn how an extraordinary collaboration across research disciplines ... such a threat to humanity * How vaccines are designed * What the new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to ... created specifically by MIT students and faculty. How cool is this? But

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  bridge and design different structural options. She also learned how to use ... sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  time - especially traveling alone. On one hand, I think it’s really cool ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers ... weird as it was, could also be empowering. In the next 3.14 days, I had

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a ... , because it's been such a mood. every morning, i wake up, and i have this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it ... figured that I'd inevitably gotten it from him. That night, I danced for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020