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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Science graduate and was looking for a Mechanical Engineering student to ... Parents always eagerly anticipate their child's first steps and cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to ... at the Institute. The pomp and circumstance of an MIT graduation was a

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  and Design Final competition!!! This semester, MIT students have been ... , themed after the movie Wicked! Both me and Veronica P. '27 are taking the class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture ... lackadaisically, eddied in the streetlights along dorm row, and soon covered the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I climb the iconic front steps and glance up at William Barton Rogers’ name ... ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your ... memory and how it's divided into various type (conceptual short term memory, working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• 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 / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions ... Ballet, Aquarium, and many museums. Current students always surprise me by being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  out with all summer; her roommate is at risk for COVID and they're safe ... circumstances, I've had to pick and choose who to spend my [rare] free time with, and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  , the store isn't bad - and yay for getting another free shirt. :) ... only have twenty thousand and six) Remember the spam (Share spam, give ... don't forward my MIT email to Gmail, and I've already taken myself off

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  . I bought it because I have a terrible weakness for geeky t-shirts, and ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... /explanation/clarification section which meets outside lecture, and often the person teaching the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  +1 for MIT MIT scores again!

  

  I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score!

  • by Bryan
  • August 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’t actively rooting for my downfall, and he never would’ve done anything ... things I want/And I'm happy for them, but then again, I'm not. Messy. But ... ’ve never really known how to deal with others’ envy, and it feels weird to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  those books and close by quoting Kurt Vonnegut's seven rules for writing ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  form out? The form has fields for you to report your coursework and ... -year courses and grades. And we're only looking for this from students with ... important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don’t need

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  provide any and all grades available for classes you’ve taken in your ... looking for current-year courses and grades. And we're only looking for ... important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http://ashraeboston.org/scholarship-info.html You can also apply for this scholarship if you're a first or second year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race ... ." - "what does that stand for, sorry?" - "black women's association" And she ... 's enthusiasm isn't quite enough fuel and I watch her for ten, twenty more seconds

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021