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  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  onto your cold-making box. I like to think about sticking-together rocks ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... these doors to control where the cats go in the house. Like this little

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  do these programs. As I've said in previous entries, a summer of ... in studying and exploring careers in science, engineering, and ... Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous academic program which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  reason, I will announce it here, but I do not foresee that happening at ... designated in your MyMIT account) is 2007. ----------------------------------- What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... . I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  Now blogging live from Mystery Hunt: FRIDAY [12:17 PM] Meet in Lobby 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the ... Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight at 12:31am Sunday in a refridgerator

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit ... what I had due this week: Monday -- nothing Tuesday -- 21A.260 paper on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  ! I will probably write more about this later."]participating in hunt ... Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I keep a postcard from home in my pocket it has sunshine and a picture of a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world, we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to ... , research and innovation, and to prepare our students to lead in every domain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards ... tradition known as the Novembeard ("No Shave November" in some regions, or ... , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the ... result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... students in your class year that works on designing the brass rat as well as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... 're interested in math research (or are interested in becoming interested in math

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... . '16 and Jake I. '16 Garden Salad by Me! Strawberry Salad by Kerry N. '14 and Kate R. '14 Green Beans in Egg by Diana H. '17

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014