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Spring Break! Spring Break Broke.
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Blog / IAP
Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.
A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.
can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that ... of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to wait your turn or become a certain age before you can do anything, like -
Blog / Events
Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!
, three teams decided to model MIT buildings. Check it out, who do you think -
Blog / Academics & Research
Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.
worth watching. What do you think? -
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 ... help? What can we do about corruption? Should we leave it all to markets ... do we deal with the disease burden? How do we improve schools? OR 11 -
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Blog / Academics & Research
It’s alive! I built a little car.
For better or worse, my 2.007 car actually drives. It's not quite as cool as Melis's, but it will do. Pictures and reflection about the design process tomorrow, once I actually finish designing and building it -
Blog / Admissions
Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.
With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this entry for: Asking any last minute CPW questions you have (you can also do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for -
Blog / Miscellaneous
I AM SO BUSY
But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Public Art Projects An art piece that captures the essence of the title of my blog.
This was today's surprise as I walked down the Infinite. I think the title of this art piece could be "Hitchhiking across the Infinite." What do you think? I really *want* that sign. I think this project was -
Blog / Miscellaneous
puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09
this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist
I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all intentions to do so, we will not be using our waitlist. Our yield was even -
Blog / Admissions
Stress
Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress NPR Morning Edition story: College Admissions: What Not to Do (with MIT -
FAQ / Academics and research
How good are the academics at MIT?
able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... to know how to work with others. So that's what you'll do here at MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today
usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we went ahead and made them do it anyway. Go humans! But you know what's even cooler than that? Training rocks… that STICK TOGETHER… to do those -
Blog / About Decisions
I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill
questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... Disqus handles that kind of conversation pretty well now, so we can just do ... do that. Go ahead and ask me anything, about admissions or whatever -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.
psets and eating, (and sleeping?), it seems like I'm doing at least something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... the way,) doing psets, when I've just had to force myself to stop -
Blog / Life after MIT
Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...
summer, I did as any nerdy sister would do to remedy the situation of a ... up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our ... 's on the internet. Here is episode 2: Did you guys ever do science -
Blog / MIT Life
Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams
business they do is done through eBay - and so their storefront is mostly ... sappy here about doing whatever you want with your imagination, following ... interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree.