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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches ... inspired waves of more hands-on engineering programs around the country, like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 9 ZigZag presents the Vehicle Design Summit and more.

  

  The newest episode of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is now available. It features a very cool piece about the Vehicle Design Summit, definitely worth ... ? Check it out: Enjoy the episode!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  , and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman, the soundtrack from Dil Se... (awesome Bollywood stuff)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I submit a maker portfolio?

  -on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board review the portfolios. ... The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... institution in the world and it feels like I've made nothing of it. Three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general ... sleeping lots blogging :) Blog entries I want to write: recap of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... that they design over the course of the semester. It's always amazing ... missed taking a photo of it going down the stairs... because I was too

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... stretching the visual capacities of storytelling, creating narrative networks

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... .” With the exception of another friend actually from New Jersey, people ate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... ; read: the first row of each economy "section" on the airplane. so much ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put ... the precious status of MIT student - reflections on my experience over ... of the blogs but we'll see if i can write that much"]1/(some number >

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places ... the huge amount of art we have on campus, and some things I never ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech research. Here's a few of the nanotech labs I'm aware of: The Laboratory for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the ... history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an internal grade report.) You'll notice the usage of STP freshman fall. Rather ... overestimate of the time commitment of this class, which had a weekly 1 hour

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the ... make it to the restaurant, grab some food from what’s left of the ... sandwich, eat, and rest before the first segment of the competition, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015