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• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  girls, ostracized and shunned, needed a vehicle to regain their self ... underprivileged students. He eventually plans to pursue a doctorate in biological ... treatment of diseases. This past summer, Gethers sought a way to continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  , the Daniels talked about how they wanted to create a movie that really ... screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of ... /directors of the movie, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, were there to do a Q&A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  designed to fit perfectly with the others, allowing us to create countless ... winter air are just what I need when I take a break from my [annotation ... lounge Having a lounge space to hang out with friends is integral to my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• 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…

  

  attempt to make a robot that imitates humanlike walking as much as possible ... are equipped with muscles that they need to walk, all they need is a little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a

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

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  sign a simple contract with some unreadable fine print. After nearly all ... to Michael Fauntleroy Stopheles (M.F. Stopheles, for short) for a mere ... puzzles therein. This would raise their Evilometers to a level where they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone to let you take a test. Once you hit a certain level of SAT scores

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  , and a group of 20 students. They worked together to create a 60-page ... to create the next generation of smaller, and therefore more efficient ... ability to apply different processes to a wide variety of parts, so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  gives me a place to release a lot of aggressive energy." Two pivotal ... in renewable energy. Wants to: Get a good-paying job so he can afford ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a ... , we need a way to heat a low pressure gas of tritium and deuterium to ... here and feel like they need to stick with a single UROP so they can get

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their deadlines and the addresses they need to be mailed to. First there was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... repeat the whole process until you're happy with them. Give them to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... and Hydrothermal Liquefaction. So how does it all work for a Freshman

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think it’s a compelling and promising enough idea that someone needs to ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... research projects so i have no choice but to work a lot, and so on. but i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern ... everyday, which is definitely preferable to a long walk or commute. From the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  they may need a workplace, test equipment, access to a shop, or simply ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach ... create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and ... likely to see someone wearing a cape than a popped collar. ... Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  creating a work of art. And to create a brilliant work of art, you not only ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He ... the show, an audience member came to me and told me that he even felt a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  , to not waste energy trying to be likeable. I spent a lot of time pre ... ’ll have more room to grow within MIT than out of it. When you leave a plant ... note="I read a book once where the main character goes to a nighttime

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  Systems Lab) to create materials for a (future) competency-based graduate ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  need to do after that is a HASS concentration and another HASS-D, and all ... a much more intriguing character, but I've already admitted to having ... 'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007