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  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• 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…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

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

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Strongbad t-shirt,-- awesome! Now that's a website that will keep you in high ... Today's Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt ... applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of ... regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again this year. The only thing we ask that you send in is a midyear grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the ... had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie ... Boston feels very expensive. So generally, I buy stuff in NYC when I go

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... was at school. Those things included: buying groceries, cooking for ... actively cultivating a social life (so much harder when you don't live in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  fundraisers in Lobby 10 Making good friends who cook for themselves Creating a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50 ... authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool ... depths of obscurity. If you find yourself living every waking moment in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... in the same field, a student may extend their concentration into a minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in finance, mathematics, political science, etc. Similarly, in the economics Ph

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  that people would complain about defying tradition in previous years ... , in an era in which we have a female president and a female running as a ... once again. It was changed for the first time in 2002). Anyway

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I'm staying in Ada-Logements, a downtown boarding house about two and a half

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  " became an important EPA goal. While this promise was not reached in time ... however, particularly after rainstorms and when walking in certain riverbeds ... .002 course website: The 6.002 Final Exam will be Tuesday, May 23 from 9

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  ), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the ... , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... in Five Minutes -General Relativity -Balloon Science -THE INTERNETS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013