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• 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a well-earned, relaxing weekend after working for 12 days in a row. New

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• 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 / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  . Installation runs November 11th to 17th Commissioned by the MIT Committee on ... I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony. Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing ... been invented over the last 20 years has been invented." (Reminder to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. ...but I'm not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  welcome to the class is the Freshman Convocation, where the freshman class ... you like to see the Convocation? Check it out: MIT Tech TV We have ... New England 13% Mid-Atlantic 19% Southeast & PR 16% Midwest &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  —for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American ... ducklings) to Harvard Express T’s. On this particular FASAP trip, we ... ominously thick package that included everything from housing lottery to

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  and even how to draw shiny things, there were also classes on sonnet ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008