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• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  johnston who took publicity pictures for the team) So every ridiculous thing ... . And for this project, they got it. (Google "Dance Floor") But they also ... when does this bad boy hit the market? You know for the home use as well

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... Wah Bus ride away from Boston, we decided to head down for the most ... for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  "technology", but are people socially aware,m for example? Are there people ... of fact, I do shower. Daily. (If that's not enough for you, I also wash ... pretty notorious for having a pretty intense workload - there was an 18

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  be between 1) a C. elegans neurobiology lab that does screens for ... donating materials for the plane. It actually turned out (because they are ... they weren't even looking for jobs. Cool. Adam applied to MIT's aero

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  the extraordinary holiday dinner party for Course 17: Political Science ... afternoon, nothing happened to me for like two weeks. Oh, except I saw this Futurama clip and laughed for like three or four days straight. But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  forward to, and I'm psyched about next semester, because for the first time I really, really want to take each of the classes I'm signed up for ... for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... 30-minute meals. People always tell me that I have no reason for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such ... lab for three 4.5-hour shifts each week, and got to plan, prepare, and ... that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  -shifting' for modern time, media Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent ... for good. Instead, producers, writers and filmmakers must engage in ... to imagine future directions and applications for our more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to ... , etc for students - not designed to be a spying tool for Big Brother. To

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  working for Lockheed Martin as an engineer and project planner when i get ... Oregon for an outdoor-sy family vacation. Anything else? I've run into a ... summer? Astrophysics UROP Where? The Kavli Institute for Space Research in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with floorplans for MIT buildings, but I think it's only accessible on campus. I don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... board for a job opening as technical editor for the first computer ... let me travel for three months. I took off from Boston and went from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  -med advisor, but instead I'll write my entry about Next House! I've lived for ... center of campus. If you're looking for convenience, then Next isn't for ... upperclassman advisors) for the same seminar =) Ok, and now for the tour! In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  'm studying Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering, for instance ... take anyway) -18.03 for the Harvard-HST Program English: -2 terms of ... said it wasn't a good school for premeds. In some cases, this is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  moments I saw. For example, there was the "delicious and healthy" Rachael ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing for Boston, picked it up off my desk and stuck it into my pocket. Not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  the song for this medley, since that's pretty much the one song in the ... about 1 male for every 2 females, I sometimes forget that the actual MIT ... Engineering Project Laboratory -- YES! We had 15 projects to choose from for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  time in the Pappalardo Lab and the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity ... tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really ... the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, our job was to take the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... ! Decades before computer hackers were. For that matter, where do you think ... major updating is supposed to be done soon, though that's been true for a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005