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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task ...  is the study of applied physics mechanics — “how to build things that won

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  even my incredulity, the tides of marathonic food consumption were yet to ... ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  because I found the challenges and day to day work interesting. The role of ... different amounts and kinds of responsibilities to PMs and sometimes the ratio of PMs to engineers varies, or the amount of collaboration, or some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -delusions of infinite free time”: 7. Rebuild the bridge from pika's balcony to ... It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer ... Ohio experiences possible and awesome! P.S. to the Class of 2019: make ... The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  chairs with the professor to discuss ethical and social implications of the ... . From the assignment: "The nature of the comparison is up to you, and the ... claim to make about the juxtaposition of these two images. Whatever you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... the rest of your time to work on the project. Unfortunately, because my ... . Then we'd do all the calculations to figure out cost, waste, production

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... gave us a breakdown of how our grades would translate to the A-F letter ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  how many times you have to go for it to pay off; the calculation of how ... they'd like; the frustration of trying to help read difficult rhythms out ... and years of musical training; the challenge of (or failure to) playing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew ... opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could ... plans to "automate the heating of the Cocoa water every night." "The cocoa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... )/14485008384, according to the back of the shirt, and google gives the ... the calculations to solve the following physics problem: how fast would

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal ... : 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  , Design Squad cast members learn to think smart, build fast, and contend ... team has just two days to complete the project. Challenges range from ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  . Your score, which you aim to maximize, is calculated as (the number of ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the ... location over another, so it was hard to predict the actions of other players

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... because of the combination of directing an ESP program almost single-handedly and trying to manage 72 credits until mid-Nov (with orgo added into the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today ... , with other people, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer ... the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the Class of 2020

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... Boston to meet us on campus. The rest of the semester, we continued to have ... piece of model legislation to regulate the increasing volume of data on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019