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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ...  recently got published online. the first is this research snippet on race in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... mostly it’s about diversity. (And as soon as he gets it back online again

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  Hello MIT Class of 2014! Here are some things that admitted students ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... distance of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... ? Today was "Bring Your Audience to Work Day," definitely one of the more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a pharmaceutical company in Boston (a lot of people take a year or two off between

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  to put fish eggs and rice cakes on a pizza. These are just some of the ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity."]"UROP[/annotation]-ing” instead of “studying,” and going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... “multivariable calculus.”"]“7.012 lecture”[/annotation] instead of “bio class,” and

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  "]produces some kind of audio[/annotation]. Bonus points [annotation note ... semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency ... some governmental history of a foreign country and put my own name down

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  them. I know this weird account of my life is probably boring but ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where ... ). Then there was midnight. Three of my friends and hall neighbors, M., T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  find a picture of it online, but apparently I was wrong! I should have ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions. There are lots of other things going on, but as far as structured

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of ... of being emotionally and even physically delayed..." And to think, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  account of the trials brought against the Ohio National Guard from the point ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006