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  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... hypothesis Metaphysics of saint thomas aquinas Is the mind a machine Kolmogorov ... in? Fainting Goats Nomadic Cultures of the World How Tea is made Why

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  Hello! My name is Natnael Getahun, but please call me Nat. I'm your ... tornado, and no, the education is not as bad as “Inherit the Wind” would have you believe. Kansas is a wonderful place for those looking for a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  , so I don't think this is particularly relevant to MIT life...but hey, I ... Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I ... ). Wow, it really shows what kind of MIT student I am over this last year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... Stephen Dubner, he received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. His

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... queer at MIT and in Senior Haus. We discussed resources on campus, like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven't been ... semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... masterpost about dance at MIT... I started learning choreographed dances when I ... I care about. this is why I have three YouTube playlists of dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is ... general existentialism.[annotation note="he is also taking the Chinese ... Chinese reading cards and there is a final video project presenting a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... misconceptions that MIT is easy when you study biology, but at the same time it ... only / you won't be lonely / even if the sky is falling down" 6:14 AM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  . (This is the most stereotypically MIT thing I can possibly think of, and I ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters ... abbreviated “MIT” has more or less eclipsed its expanded form. With 3 characters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I ... year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... : (referring to the tube MIT sends out around decision time) My reaction was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students, professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... in that class was fine-tuning our ears by being guided all over MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my MIT class. It was quite a party with a record number of classmates and their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston was. Well, obviously, the answer to that is "visit MIT," so we took ... (mellophone, MIT '09), all recently graduated from my high school. It turns out ... three or four random facts I know about MIT. "Due to a zoning ordinance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... Summer has [annotation note="in academic calendar only. it is ... bloggers to share anything and everything about their MIT experience: what it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... other MIT student where we had breakfast and dinner provided. Classes were

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic ... ): obtain mushrooms of various types. shiitake is pretty good. obtain ... . ginger is important. garlic can also be nice chop everything up into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  , we were walking by the moat of the MIT chapel, which is just an empty ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... this is that when it’s cold, it snows, which is pretty much the best. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009