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  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So ... too. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blogpost about how I was halfway

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i ... through wikipedia pages and getting information and not doing anything with ... going out (not with a bang but with a whimper)

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  that studies how particular stem cells decide to become different kinds ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... 's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened. But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a ... current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done! Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  health internship." Little did I know that this would turn out to be an ... .org and tailored to be culturally appropriate to the Chinatown population) as health education materials to be distributed (as printed postcards

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... that basically allows you to upload photos and thoughts to the web in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we see words and sentences related to work, money, food, culture, and other ... , and we compare and contrast the different responses to gain perspectives

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of obesity. This project intends to help people who are trying to lose weight

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give that power to someone else. Don't give it to your parents, don't give it to your siblings, don't give it to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball ... stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  department] with Prof. Nittai Bergman. We tried to find a way to analyze how ... unexposed to otherwise. Favorite MIT Professor: Terry Heagney for 15.281 Managerial Communications because he was always willing to help us with things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  learning how to pronounce German consonants from an mp3 file. Now I can ... successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check ... 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

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  answer:       I have been privileged to know and ... . But right now, I don't think I've ever been prouder to be an MIT ... who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... how quickly these past two years have flown by... Around this time last ... my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011