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  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  about my UROP   ^_^ It all started back in March, when I began poking ... Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... hooked on this idea.  In a nutshell, there exist satellites called SPHERES

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which ... Innovation & Design (EID), a class in the GEL program, together last fall ... , Blade Kotelly, mentioned it in class. A few months passed and then Sarah

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but there are two days in my life that felt quite similar: September 11th

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now ... engineering. FIRST works something like this: every year, in January, a star ... the 37,000+ students on 3,000+ teams in 12 countries worldwide. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in its evocations of tacky yet luxurious department-store sofas. Of ... inflection, perhaps in a context that makes absolutely no sense. Like: “Yo, it ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

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

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health ... immune system, and tested these nifty band-aids on pig intestine in the lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... , not IN the tour. I present to you a glimpse into what the average MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... one where Spock says "Logic is a little bird, chirping in a meadow." So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  information that she found in a women's fitness magazine at the Z-Center while ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... , and we in college admissions officers reinforce that, they don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  all day Friday in the lab, along with our regularly scheduled lab time ... into place. April 27 (I know because it's recorded in my journal ... plays whom in the first round of the competition by having you run your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you ... Hillel pin in with my admission envelope, with Hebrew letters that roughly ... in Kresge Oval every year, and an apologetic e-mail from an abdicating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  : Thursday, Thursday September 15, 2005. Keep in mind that there are three ... UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy ... , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  Urban Planning, having declared a HASS concentration in Economics, and continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in ... Charter High School and working in MIT's Lewis Music Library. Also, juicy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... woefully undercovered in most US curricula, and the first book we read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... thought it was awesome that the rooms had sinks in them. 2) Maseeh: because ... ended up in Maseeh and I liked it so much, I have stayed here all four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017