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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  engineer to appear on such a high-profile tech publication that I can recall ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of ... traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the ... In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  attendees. I don't know what I was thinking on Saturday, but I forgot to take ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  Underground was running on time, and you all made it to the competition just in ... This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2.671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be truthful. And we must hold ourselves to that standard. I want to reassure

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  're accustomed to on our birthdays? Well, I think I've lost that a while ago, but ... . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet ... light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum ... students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2 ... was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  Light Drift (Those orbs in the river actually correspond to orbs on ... flood of celebrations - all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These celebrations have been covered here and there on the blogs (Convocation, Public

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  ). Are there other kinds of stories you'd like to see on ZigZag? Things or people you'd like to know more about?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up ... has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his ... situation. Outside, there were a few robots on display: The actual

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT ... environmentally sustainable way. Check out their site to learn about all of the good things going on at J-WAFS!  
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for ... topology, to applied mathematics areas such as combinatorics, computational
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  posting tutorials on YouTube. Three years later Sal left his job as a hedge fund analyst to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  On Saturday, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who have won ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering ... immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I have class from noon to 4, so I usually eat lunch during my documentary

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  Following last week's Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful gift: an origami Evie. The most amazing thing about the piece is just ... February 21). I expect to see some nice entries; I'll post them when the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006