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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  wide web: providing a stable shelter at MIT for a fragile technical ... I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to

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

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween-themed care package a week or two ago, which was probably the most festive part ... Costco pack of fruity/sour candy, a movie, some foodstuffs, some other cool

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist ... in cooking, laundry, etc. I am having a great stay in South Asia, and I ... environment at TIFR was very professional yet warm. I learned a great deal from

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some ... myself to it. In January 2020, I built a web app with my two friends; we ... heat wave has made even walking outdoors feel like swimming through a

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

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  the *web*, even if it’s really hard for some of us. (Get it? Web? It’s a ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... specks, burying everything in dust. a phreatic eruption, we would learn ... happening. the hallways feel like they’ve expanded a little, now that they are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I ... was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a few meals so I ordered a large cheese pizza, a large grilled chicken

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... topics. For the best source of information, please visit web ... year? We won't know until a few days after May 1, when admitted students

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  . Upstatement is a first-rate web design and engineering firm whose staff have ... .edu. As I blogged here, the data showed we had a large overlapping audience ... Upstatement),  and embark upon a shared research, design, and engineering effort

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  wanted to build a decentralized web application that used a blockchain as a ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  him today! I stuck around because I was configuring a web server and ... after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  my phone developed a giant, spider-web shaped crack. The entire screen ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... Chicago just isn't worth it for a weekend. But my Family Weekend was not

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  internship. I had decided instead to apply to a handful of web start ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start ... asked Justin to write a little guest entry too, so he wrote a really nice

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  feedback from the web. Greg snapped a picture of me playing some As Tall As ... area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... trebuchets, a handmade wooden kayak, little robotic wooden men. He continued

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  's posted to the web, it's worth a watch (but I pre-apologize for the audio ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Hello from Georgia! We had a fantastic meeting last night in Atlanta ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment ... will be mailed next week, be patient). What does the NBM include? A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  A reminder: Fall 2005 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline ... options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... http://web.mit.edu/urop/students/mit/awards.html, for example last year I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  ...sorry :( I first touched web development less than a year ago, and that project ... graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012