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  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle ... lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• 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 ... the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new revolutionary technology being developed at MIT by the Self Treading Insole Design

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

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  all, an institution of learning!   My friend Noa '15 playing with our ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  University of Technology’s car can corner at 3 G’s of acceleration. There ... student in the Aerospace Controls Lab. He was the electrical systems lead of ... friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving its best scholarly treatment to a ... class "Sex and the Institute" watch a pair of half-hour episodes, each ... by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  count towards your degree in any of a number of majors. Courses designated ... and dread. 2.009 is sort of the be-all and end-all of a Course 2 degree ... scenes all of the time. A typical 2 hour class starts with a warmup, some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Four ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  the Broad Institute, Co-Chair of Obama's President's Council on Science ... tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... root of experiment. It is processed ignorance, carefully constructed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  this lecture, he would retreat to the Broad Institute (part of MIT) and ... , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the ... elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006 he received the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature ... . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For ... : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Davidson Institute Seeks Extraordinary Achievers to Receive $50,000, $25

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this ... lawsuit, both institutions argue that this decision was "arbitrary and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... ’m here through MISTI, or MIT International Science and Technology

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... Reif argued against the possible repeal of DACA. You should read the ... me here: As the president of one of America’s leading technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010