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• 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…

  

  work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an intelligent walking "toddler" robot. After learning to sit, bend their knees ... to walk. While engineers have mastered robotic arm designs, walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms, decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those ... , and any supplemental materials helping us to understand those grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... student and person she is. It occurred to me that we admissions officers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , who also happens to be MIT’s choir director, invites Concert Choir members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented ... get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  Tila patay na ang diwa My soul’s run out From trying to be Like everyone ... wanted to do an internship over the summer. I don’t know what, exactly, made me feel like I wanted to do one. I knew that I didn’t want to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  some words easier, because it stops people from making big thoughts to ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things that are happening to you, but how are you?" I didn't have a good answer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city ... then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them. on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  , hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... summer -- painting, drawing, gaming. Anything to keep the little string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show, "AfroShake" When I first sat down to talk to Emmanuel, that feeling of ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018