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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project ... .e., it's her job to make sure that Bitcoin and related technologies help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has ... speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  -long vacations to these vicious battles, which are typically organized by winners ... (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... , and we were pretty intrigued by the idea of making an ASL reverse lookup

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... they had time to talk. That person became a mentor to him, encouraged him ... probably got over-simplified while making a home for itself in my memory. But

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  are to me Make a real impact in the world ... would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... with the team That new gorillaz album Taking a 2 hour nap Going to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... and is now well on his way to fame and fortune. And by fame and fortune ... everywhere, so I'll give you a preview. BENZENE BACK (inspired by Sexy Back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  , and some visits to firms like Eleven, THE MEME, and even a hardware accelerator called Bolt. They also get a chance to explore the city of Boston ... idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  hundreds of unique solutions to the game that'll make a team think "man, I ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  by moving to a remote time zone. Surely, that could’ve been avoided ... [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people ... then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... this discrepancy, we need to talk a bit about linear algebra. A common

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a ... taking a playwriting class. i was partially inspired by Alan and partially ... my writing. to some extent, poetry is just a monologue, right? right? i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do with their lives. Inspired by their successes, we then decided to form an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... decided to join Kensho, a data science company at Harvard Square, as a full ... chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and ... , although it was quite clear they couldn’t make the food fast enough to keep

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... doing day-to-day work, since I felt like I was missing a central ‘why’. It ... refreshing to read a few posts from alumni who are now over 15 years from when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  makes me so happy! it was weird to be a floor chair for this event when ... three times a week to dance with their hiphop team! it was a good ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  the evening by going out to karaoke and singing a lot of Japanese songs ... somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009