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• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Every time I give a presentation about MIT, I always try to emphasize ... like a super hero's day name? Kind of like Clark Kent by day Superman by night. For the MIT people, Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman........ Just my

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles and, most recently, a working metal lathe But there are certainly downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... for a long, long while; Melis '08 wrote about it a few years ago, when ... Kesem is a free week-long summer camp for kids of cancer patients; more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  As I mentioned here, I'm taking a class called 2.670 during IAP this ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... always wanted to have a brother. Last Saturday, that dream came true ... of you already know, since early September I have been a member of Phi

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing match. And this week, I went down hard. MIT landed a good right hook and I ... that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  A reminder: Fall 2006 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline ... options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... . You can register as a pass/fail UROP or as a graded UROP. But, note that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  birthday, so his parents are coming up from Plymouth for a big family dinner to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to ... work I've been doing for the past year and a half. I'll be graduating

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• 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…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, experienced some those feelings even before becoming a parent, because of her

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor planet (a.k.a. an asteroid, but minor planet sounds substantially more ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  schedule for the next term, but this takes place several months before a term ... taking 7.31 (Current Topics in Mammalian Biology), a seminar-style upper ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... Library has a phenomenal collection of resources to educate and entertain ... senior prom. Stefano '06, a physics major, listens to a classical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... , deluxe'd out with a cupholder and five disco-colored stripes underneath a ... visage. I duct taped a garbage bag around the hole because I didn't want my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024