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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  've been writing lab reports, doing labs, learning, measuring, and pretty ... do with the force gauge involves measuring the strength of your bicep ... to do science. In the end, these were the results: Come

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... section labeled "fun." Basically I decided that if my to do list looks like ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spring Break! Spring Break Broke.

  

  Paris or have suggestions as to what to do, let me know! Cheerio!

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2007
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• 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

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  , three teams decided to model MIT buildings. Check it out, who do you think

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  worth watching. What do you think?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• 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

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  ! What do you think?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• 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

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• 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

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• 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

  • by Bryan
  • December 8, 2005
• 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

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• 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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• 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

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014