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  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  month, after our first year of having a Maker Portfolio, I gave a talk at ... students at MIT, and next week she and I will be presenting about our Maker Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  Office of Admissions tomorrow before we close for the weekend at 5:00pm EST ... After a week of checking, double checking, and checking ... confirmed your username and password at decisions.mit.edu yet, and you plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  ] Woke up at 10 am to continue puzzling. Lots of cities open. Continuing to ... in the basement of E18. HQ will be staying open for at least several ... . Join us digitally at: Go to: http://headquarters.mit.edu Username

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot ... have my self-esteem bolstered when pre-frosh recognize me at CPW and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  ridge, where the roof of your mouth is at its highest point. [j] yes ... potion at the back of the roof of your mouth. [k] king - unvoiced [g] gain ... or unrounded by looking at the shape of the lips. A high, back, rounded

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw ... Jamilla Jamison (formerly of our office, now at Harvey Mudd), about how to ... hundreds (and hundreds) of booths at ISEF, speaking with students there. Some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  scholars and will spend two or three years of graduate study at Oxford ... biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really ... last fall at the University of Cambridge through CME. (I'd describe

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... graduate school in biology at a time when a lot of my friends from high ... discarded because of my gender -- people at MIT just aren't like that. As long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  subtle undercurrent of rampant paranoia. At some level, nearly everyone ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  hold the answer. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed ... attraction at the end of the session. And, somewhat unbelievably, the Human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  18, of Random Hall): "I'm working at Akamai, which is not all that ... House, formerly of Simmons): "Summer internship at NASA-Langley Research ... working at my local hospital and baking a lot of cookies this summer too

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week 5 of Michaelmas term at Cambridge. Week 5 at MIT means Fifth week ... , get about 8-9 hours of sleep every night, even at MIT. But you

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  . At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time ... , that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he ... top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least ... of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  you find it. You'd be surprised at the number of people who've told me ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011