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  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  Simmons, founder at Curative Orthopaedics, designer of comfortable ... sculptures. M.S. in Computation for Design and Optimization at MIT. Harrison

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  inform your design. The second part, creativity, is harder to define.  It ... communicating why you designed something the way you did.  It means making sure

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... committee strives to design a ring that we, as students, can take pride in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  design a "hands-free" walker which would help him use his trunk muscles ... structure was out of PVC and not designed to support his weight at this point

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab, procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post ... come out of it. I spent all semester with the Design/Build/Fly team

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... that, though Corn Dog was designed well and constructed beautifully, it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design/Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  , and compliments about everything from the landing gear design to the ... 're in Kansas for the Design/Build/Fly competition, and after unpacking our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  ambiguous by design, since Milton is fond of wordplay and double meaning ... building detectors designed to make sense of radio light, x-ray light

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  ). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design ... influence and optimize future floor plans and architectural designs. Epic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and ... production meeting. Basically, production meetings allow designers, producers

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  the chalkboard.) The keynote speaker was Robin Hunike, the designer ... , independent designers, and small companies exhibiting. The digital expo floor

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long ... Deliverables – You get challenged to make things with good design that are

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  graphic design for personal websites, music videos, robotics and circuitry ... behind the scenes to make up the Village. Designing the interface is one

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  been working tirelessly on the system’s designs. Nathan Kipniss ’14, also ... design her experiments and now she is a pro! Good job to all my baby bears

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  designer Phillip Starck: The next morning we had a lovely brunch at ... favorite aspect was the set design: across the stage, a set of roughly twenty

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  ... I had heard that Steven Holl, the architect who also designed MIT's spongey Simmons dorm, recently designed an award-winning residential complex

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  design and audience, as a social utility intended to facilitate the maintenance of weak ties has become, by design and audience, a social utility

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case ... pneumatic LEGOs, discussing the design all the way home ... The arm is already

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ". The universally loved Tony Eng designed the course to reprogram ... Design & Implementation) - So far we've mostly just looked at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011