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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a ... experience. A lot of crazy people approved the trip. Before I left for Korea

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  Foundation, the same folks who funded MIT's new Broad Institute of genomics for ... A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early ... , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... [annotation note="some concern about award adjustment for the uninsured as well

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  the coast with balloon cameras for months -- or as long as it takes for ... How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... (UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  ; maybe now more than ever. Thank you for being one of the most important ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV53qvfM3Xw For the completionists, a two-hour long interview with Woodie for the "Infinite History" project back in 2016. 

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... and setting up for the barbecue.  Fun Fact: Marvin and I had sinus ... games and animals for the kids to play with outside. Our Graduate Resident

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind ... that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... dressed in shorts and aloha shirts, we were… rather ill-prepared for the ... sticks, retrieved one of the B2 fake lei, poked holes in the head for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  for the next 7 days. The seven affected countries are: Iran, Iraq ... the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the ... form of food that we still call pasta, like chili) for the whole hall ... also a really important question on the board for residents to fill out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and ... Ate the Whole Thing.” Week 1’s competition was for the Best Team name ... legit =). (Thanks to Kim Shive for the extra info on Team Blatieshoe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  (the system is unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early ... ). What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... available online in addition to the standard postal mailing. We expect to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... , the professors themselves, or both. The office hours for 10.302 are ... concepts pretty quickly. I'm most excited for the mandatory piano lab and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the National Gallery (East Wing designed by MIT alum I.M. Pei) and maybe the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try ... professor could ask questions for the students to answer with clicker remotes ... showed up too late for Meet the Bloggers, since there weren't many people

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... , and reserves a lecture for the economics of prostitution. The story is ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  time in the Pappalardo Lab and the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity ... the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, our job was to take the ... away high paying jobs for the opportunity to work at MIT and they all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  can do this for pretty much every language on the Internet, including ... Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014