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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak internet use at 3a.m. every night. But what about after you graduate and ... while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... VERY long three months. But, last night it was over, and it was time for ... and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked right back at him and said, "Why visit me? You've been through Hell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  /innovative architecture. Stata, Kresge, Building 66, the Green Building, the Brain and Cog ... colleges, like Harvard and CalTech, strive for uniform and regal architecture ... and there's also some doors that lead to Stata or the Green Building

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... and silver and black MIT lanyard; on it are the words MIT Engineers, a ... (abstractly represented by cardinal-colored ripples), and a mass of keys about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... . But I found out all about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night during my Chinese ... going! The streets were so packed with people that cars and bikes had a

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  : "Oh, and in later chapters, please include the being alone without family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  , and Charm School). Read on... (and if you like comics, or movies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her human children: sons Ryan and Nathan. This one, I think, is definitely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  . Zigzag is produced by Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and is alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of ... about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  . My friend Tiffany '06 invited me to join her company's team, and Laura ... :30 a.m. AIDS Walk begins! 12:30 p.m. Post-Walk concert and family entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an ... against Brazil. I had a good cry about it and vowed that I would never

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s alive! I built a little car.

  

  For better or worse, my 2.007 car actually drives. It's not quite as cool as Melis's, but it will do. Pictures and reflection about the design process tomorrow, once I actually finish designing and building it

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  chocolate, and cleansed our pallets with bread and water. (Chocolate, bread, and water = the 3 food groups?) They encouraged us to rub and smell ... stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  and the difficult decisions we make in selection. This year, we received ... month reading and crafting great summaries of your applications, and now we take those summaries and work from them. We do selection in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005