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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  localization – how a robot can figure out where it is in when you place it ... is symmetrical! Can any of you guess what the bubble wrap is for? If ... ’m sure someone can answer it.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  jammed up today, and it would be hard for us to meet up. Can we meet Friday ... moral of this story is, though I suppose it can be any one of the ... can do great things for each other. Any others that I'm missing? In any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... dance floor kits and components (you can see most of these on the webpage ... 're just chillin," says one member. You can make business your pass-time, too

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT ... soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  in a place where to a degree the world comes to you and you can meet a ... feeling. So is all this "you can change the world" message just lip service or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  my current situation, but I can't remember it because I didn't end up ... , you also have to find an adviser to whom you can relinquish control of ... wait until the cabin is inhabited again so I can ask people to look for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... how people can continue to believe that MIT students are completely one ... the matter is, MIT students can't be defined by any one steretype, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... /or spouse away from MIT with the promise that she/he can return in the fall ... Cambridge! ------------------------------------- Can I fill in YES on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... individual to individual. If there's one thing that I think can be helpful, I ... BIGGEST PIECE OF ADVICE I CAN GIVE to anyone going to college, keep an OPEN

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be searched for key words so you can review concepts; you can repeat sections of

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  my major. Plus, you can't really beat the weather--I ran up what must ... presented to the US Department of Energy by our professor. How bad can that be ... MIT--you have to wait until you get into grad school before you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until ... , most anyone can figure out how to put one foot in front of the other, but ... you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  regardless of your high school preparation. You can also make life easier or ... requirements, you can take 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) or 8.022 (Electricity ... …you’ll find a group of people where you’ll feel like you belong. If you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  hunt with Project Electric Mayhem (can you figure out the pop culture ... deliver the vision lecture. You can check out the progress of the different ... : As you can probably tell, I'm trying to finish up my PE requirement

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on ... the Pacific (for example…) The 8 P.E. point requirement can be ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... Bostonians. Basically you can get me to do anything if you tell me that people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  APPLICATION; WHO CARES ABOUT SQUASH SOUP RECIPES?! Well, uh, I can't help you there, but I can post some stereotypically MIT photos: In order for me ... 't harmful, we can live among you in peace" when just two days before he almost

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  admissions readers that we can't take a considerably larger number than we do ... this challenging school and become all that we hope you can, that you ... themselves, who can laugh at their mistakes and struggles, who seem comfortable

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  what they are. The full report (158 pages) can be read here. The summary of the report (only 11 pages) can be read here. I anticipate that ... helped design. You can read their story, as written by Jeff Roberts '01

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I ... -grain bread? $2 for frozen mango chunks? How can I resist?!" And then you bought like 40 things and you can barely even carry it home in their giant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006