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  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  TechCrunch DisruptNY 2016 was an absolutely amazing experience. For five days I hung out with startup founders, venture capitalists, hackers, journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find a haircut at…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled “Meltdown” about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful, sad, and beautifully sad post,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here. **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I’m blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I’m sweating, partially because it’s hot even inside with the AC nominally blasting, and partially because I just ate so much BBQ…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can’t think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote this…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. During this time, we've been…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made with a 2-liter seltzer water bottle, some foam core board, a hot glue gun, a red folder,…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and technology disciplines. We forget that innovation at its core really means solving problems in new ways, across many disciplines.…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced towards MIT, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been transformed into a huge sports stadium,…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  “No innovation without fabrication!” This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. ’18 was known for always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released, securing the MIT team’s first-place ranking–our team has finished in first place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Technology-enhanced education is changing the lives of millions without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  A venture capitalist seeks out startups with high potential and invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college, in high school, in general, if…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then Boston, and Somerville—the vines and…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  We were so lucky to have the UA Alumni Affairs Committee invite John Maeda — former MIT graduate and MIT Media Lab professor, former President of Rhode Island School of…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016