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• 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 ... robot-related tasks, each year with a different theme. The year's theme ... being entirely autonomous and audience "ooh's" for doing something badass

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this ... wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative ... Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... . Thanksgiving break finished off a stressful week. After waking up from a pie ... soon. Long weekends always kill me. They are a gift, but also a sharp

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  . Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former MIT faculty member or alum has won a Nobel every year since 1993. So this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  but then ended up having a lot of fun doing! Also, MIT has a bouldering ... three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  course is to do a case study of the evaluation process of a major ... write about a topic that we should know a lot about: our classes. I ... Engineering Problem Solving). My classes this semester are a little different

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a laptop?? Does anyone else still read books, or do you all have Kindles

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a ... live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  ourselves, what else can we do: A yoyo that whistles A yoyo that has water ... Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... message will self-destruct in a minute. Bye! So that was it and then we

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing? Well, that's a good question. Each year, the MIT Chorollaries host the ... airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German ... can tell a lot from social cues, hand gestures, and a limited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... from the waitlist; I'll let you know when I know more. Some people do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat Mc ... , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was about 15 when I read "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think," a step

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  with a 7-1 record [read more: MITAthletics] So, Summer got a 2300 on ... , regardless of who else is applying from a particular school. Dressing like a ... quoted in a recent Bloomberg News article on stress & college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke ... and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... into one of several buckets. In order to do this, we need a lot of ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  extreme poverty a thing of the past? Why do some countries grow fast and ... 't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics ... help? What can we do about corruption? Should we leave it all to markets

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  't gotten a chance to do that in a class here yet.   It’s also a Sloan ... do ab curls and squats and a ton of other exercises that I would hate ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  adjusting to do; it’s going to take a long time to re-imagine 19 years of ... I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago. Pictures were taken, trips were made, food was scrutinized. But as happens a ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019