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• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  something’s ended, followed by the immediate urge to check your phone an old ... , leaving a website because you’re bored then immediately opening another tab ... instrument while listening to a song. or suddenly becoming conscious of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16 ... assigned a dorm, a room, and possibly a roommate. Fast forward to today ... a chance to change dorms. And after everybody has been assigned to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  to be a chapter (written by Bloomberg editor Dan Golden) from Century ... your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  additional 250lbs. A front hinge makes it easily attachable and detachable to ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band ... , each charged with making a new product on a budget of $6500 and a 3-month

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or ... be a nightmare. If you’re a senior, and you really want to get your ... go to websites that had things like: “Chance me with this SAT score and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  help in making MITAdmissions better. tl;dr: this summer, we're going to completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... curriculum. I went to a math and science Magnet program, so I came into MIT ... requirements! Socially, making the transition to college will be challenging no

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects ... learn a little bit more about life at MIT. MIT's blogs have started to ... useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  into a few groups and set to work making whatever we wanted. One device ... Lab website, I decided to check out their press links. I was making my ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... through this week. If that's not enough to make you just DIE to be an aero

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  brochures? tips and things? website? information fairs? making a ... Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... to create a "Think Local First" campaign^^ for this island. I’m working

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new ... the opportunity to collaborate on a large research project with top ... Solving are working together to create a place for students to experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  initial plan was to dance to Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae. It had just come ... added I Do by Cardi B to the mix because we wanted something with a grimy ... cut so we had to make sure each scene had a specific correlation to each

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... by any means, but if there was list of everything that goes into making ... said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  attempt to make a robot that imitates humanlike walking as much as possible, the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and ... what choices students should make to help their chances of coming to MIT ... the FIRST robotics competition. There are two elements to the program: a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  disillusioned to learn the droid was actually animated by a tiny man inside. So ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006