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  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary ... cars, STrIDE has developed sensors for your shoe that alert you of ... be extremely useful for helping people not stub their toe.   MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... McDonald's hacking MIT? This is like the Zapruder film for reflexive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  name for a general inscriptive strategy, one that uncovers the ... to prepare for reading and selection, which has already begun for QuestBridge and which will soon begin for Early Action. So the next few weeks I'm going to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and likely for others. Therefore, I feel a sense of duty in debunking my own ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  has melted away into a newfound excitement for the future, for REX week, for living in a suite with friends next semester, and adding new ... picture apart. The email subject title read: “Important news for the Senior

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their ... any additional students for the Class of 2020. We have seen all the ... ). Looking back now, it was a great fit for me and I had an amazing experience

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  towards MIT, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... themed for a certain decade and most featuring open bars:   And

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how ... those steps was moving off campus. And that is why I moved off campus for my senior year. It was the absolute correct decision for me. Now, my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  are restrictions that are unnecessary for you (I want to crotchet!!) and ... again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified ... cat waiting for me. I want my cat!!!   And that's it. I'm here

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... schedules are problematic for your mental health.. While I don’t think I feel ... actually 9:47, but I stayed in bed for a bit longer so that it was about ten

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life ... I made a commitment with one of my friends--each week, we meet for an hour and do nothing but read. Usually we end up staying for much longer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some ... and also raising money for the Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund.  The Fund ... side 2015 calendar today at wotes.mit.edu!!! And pick up/pay for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  at the Z center for morning lifting. 7:53 AM The view as soon as you ... start catching up on my HASS reading for Neuroscience and Society. 11 ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , so I'll save it for later :D First, let's talk about computing. MIT ... processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... for the Institvte, which explains its high ceilings and open spaces

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... the attention, begged for pastries, and generally took advantage of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... flips over to fold into a desk that would be way too big for any actual ... point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  my First Year. My First Year Out Of School. I worked part-time for Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... lost password link. There is a similar link for forgotten usernames. If ... decision, so make sure you are prepared for the fierce wind of knowledge. 

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013