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  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... modifications to, or cancellations of, their respective final exams. We have ... many of the communities on campus to connect with the next generation of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... reproducing structural bias in data and AI, which is a huge risk for those of us ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... on the menu anymore. (There is a place next to Shojo called Ruckus ... .s. everybody on my hall is listening to this song and let me tell you, it bops

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  MIT is a part of the same world it is disrupting. Whether you want to or ... 't ask for better people to struggle with. On behalf of all of us at the ... ’ll waive it. There is no benefit or advantage to applying to MIT Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... mileage may vary on MIT's TEAL system, which splits a class of roughly 80 ... little better, probably because people have adapted to the idea of working

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  producing good output, which means i spend a lot of time working and trying to ... satisfying way to live the rest of my life hamming explains it better than i can: “It is well known the drunken sailor who staggers to the left or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  on the way there to better face the doldrums that are mid ... class to make my way there. Step 6. Learn things Here is a list of ... lecture on Wednesday, which means I don’t need to take a separate trip to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  . as with any piece of writing, there is no obligation to read further if ... . I have good conversations with most of the professors there, which is ... , around 5 PM, I walk over to one of the piano rooms on the 4th floor of the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  to help me out half the time."]“those rice tamale things,” [/annotation]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  streak of a week is getting old). MIT is truly an incredible place to be ...   Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

   (MIT Sloan School of Management) shared his favorite thing at MIT, which is 15 ... example the three images below. On the right is a photograph of Commodore ... two images of U.S. ships going to Japan below. The image on the left

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We ... to make charcoal Read on, grasshopper....   What is charcoal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  . Click here to see the panoramic I took on top of the mountain. Sorry that ... miraculous act of God, I must have done much better than I thought on the final ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... ,[/annotation] a period of time in which lots of undergrads are preparing for or are ... 's helpful to note that a semester is roughly four months, or sixteen weeks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale ... back in check. My self esteem is...heavily tied to my skin (for better or ... ="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... roll on, which also happens to be a catenary. I took 18.022 myself, a ... DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew ... lot of bustling areas and tourist sites in downtown Quebec, which was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  prominent symptom of which is mental retardation) can be shown to have long ... is enough... many labs seem to focus on issues which are interesting to ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few ... , struggling to decide on a fig to pick, while all the figs wither away. it is ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022