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  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 ... , squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the coordination and strength

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

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  should look equally good on a desktop, laptop, tablet, iPad, Kindle, mobile phone, iPhone, whatever.  What do you think?  Let us know how it ... ;Superstorm"?) Sandy, we will be flexible with your EA application materials.  I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  talk, but I'll link to one if it arises, and in the meantime, I'll update ... . With this award, we will honor work that impacts society in positive ways ... a living person or group engaged in what we believe is extraordinary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... We’ve just opened registration (and our puzzle!). You can find both at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want ... foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example ... writing and the visual arts. But more importantly, we believe that we can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  +1 for MIT MIT scores again!

  

  I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score!

  • by Bryan
  • August 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... at Ring Delivery in April. When I got my sample ring, it was too small ... the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan ... Strokes) Top 100 songs playlists: i concur with abby's taste in music New ... toward the music I listened to (ad infinitum) in 2017. 2017 was also the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are volunteer opportunities available?

  At the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG Center), you can connect with a variety of public service projects in local, national, and global communities. The PKG Center can also provide guidance
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  Allan’s IAP in California! A hand drawn map of the area I was staying ... talented)! 🤯 30) An "I voted" sticker from when we voted in the ... are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I ... expressions, Prof Mahajan suggests that we can, in fact, measure the entropy of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best way to fill this out. Do your best to place things where you think they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  , as you can see in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ostFopE24 ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  ; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... .” 4. v working in a urop. “This summer I’m uroping in an EAPS lab ... certain if I have ever heard it referred to in words. People say ".009" or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018