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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  about Dheera '06 MEng '07, who, um, upgraded his door lock. Next, US News ... Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock ... design, a computer-less setup that involves a microcontroller, a motor, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Confusion. Fear. When I first received news about the tragedy in New Zealand ... mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS ... last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript (April 23); AXO Lip Sync, which Snively has blogged about (April 24, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... including folks from mechanical engineering and the Glass Lab, had figured out ... , Mediated Matter posted an (incredibly satisfying and visually gorgeous) video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  Investigators, and thirteen members of the National Academy of Sciences. Today ... Cancer Research, and in November, CCR director Tyler Jacks shared the 2005 ... often multidisciplinary, bringing together nuclear engineers and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  liveblog, updating this entry throughout the day with thoughts and stories ... hints and thoughts in the comments thread that might help. Don't stop, you ... year's hunt organizers -- Dan '03 (at right) and my old Baker House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... people stay on campus and take classes or work on UROPs. some people just ... ideas), and hang out with friends. so there's a lot going on, but campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Belichick. In other admissions news, we just posted some old movies about MIT, and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion ... hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at home eating, ice skating, eating, shopping, eating, and watching movies ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  partners and went over a French-language news update for le 9 janvier ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  fuels and turkey carcasses are awesome and everything, considering that ... '08 and eventually joined by just about everybody I've ever met, just won a $25,000 grant from MTVU and GE. Seriously! $25,000! Won by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  live webcast, and covered by MIT News, the Boston Globe, and other media ... (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... early in the term and you'll see what I mean. https://vimeo.com/893853200

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter ... this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location ... MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  taking place on Allston St. Pictures and news of it were circulating all ... ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  Google and Yahoo news feeds. If there's an article about you or a friend ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... at MIT, we only award need-based scholarships, and we meet the full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... ://www.nih.gov/) and came across the Research and Training Opportunities page (http ... resume, a cover letter, and a grade report), I waited... and waited... and

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

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I ... launched MIT Illuminations, a colorful lighting installation and introduction ... Illuminations in MIT News where I am quoted telling some of the story of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and half years and 3 billion miles later, it has reached its destination and ... to the Earth and begin transmit it. The New Horizons team estimates 16

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... .: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010