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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review ... opinion, I contacted Jessica Banks, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Computer ... .D candidate at the MIT Media Lab, an expert on robot-legged locomotion, who was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  delicious." Anyway, I think I've analyzed this movie aimed at ten ... check out the delivery of the sixth book at their Coop, so I figured it ... lightning bolt?) said they got it at Curious George. They were also handing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  freshman students we may admit (this is the only quota at MIT). Recently that ... . paper- vs. computer-based test). We recommend scores of at least 100 ... officers, we have a wide knowledge base and are pretty good at figuring out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  affordable dining experiences run by students, for students. Hosted at unique ... about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to ... could easily (and humbly) find himself at any institution post

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  even looked at? What ever happened to going the extra little bit? I can ... determine how the test will correlate with future success at MIT (unlike CR ... the EA round are accepted in the RA round. You are not at a disadvantage

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title ... Olsen: On today's episode, Chris Peterson, Director of Special Projects at ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  perhaps some thoughts about life at MIT too. If you're not as interested in ... some thoughts about life at MIT :). The math in the first part is some ... first year at MIT. Part 1: The Loomis-Whitney inequality (aka the math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... ="97282" image3="97288" /] Now that I’m at MIT, I play tetris almost daily. In the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at ... probably moves forward at roughly the same time as your right leg, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Plus, cyclists have to be focused at all times, eyes on the road (so ... the needed direction at the same time. We got to see a small demo ... is Pinkie, stares at us knowingly through beady black eyes   A

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

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  't decreased at all. If you post your question there, you have a few advantages ... . Battle on! - V. M. asked, Over here at my school, we aren't taught any ... the admissions office. - M. B. said, I spoke with some counselors at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  This past weekend, the US underwent one of the biggest snowstorms of the decade (at least that’s what Yahoo news told me) impacting more than ... this igloo at this point and been sent at minimum 5 photos of it. I think

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  chronic ankle pain and tendonitis. At the art museum, I was sitting on a ... velcro echoes. In Chinatown, we walk at a snail pace. Guilt increases with ... , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  exercise, I got rightly rejected from a position at a startup. My interviewer ... having the wrong strengths at the wrong time for the company. That there ... lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the ... doing 5 that they released specifically as "past exam problems". At a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... IAP or summer that I did full-time work, I arrived at the office at 7 a ... -defining laziness. At the core of all this anxiety was the biting fear that my mentor

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  attention. My summer at home, before and after Alaska, was mellow. Restful ... rest at the roots of the ecosystem we are all a part of: generosity ... , which places humans at the top and plants at the bottom. Instead, in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  real as anything I knew at that time. Two years later I felt pulled ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome ... exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  on the HIGHWAY in Maine this is INSANE" "Oh my god" the adventure At 9 ... trying to book the same car at the same time. It was insane. Cait and I ... to have friends eager to go on excursions like these. At 12am, Isaac

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024