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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... biohacker from Montreal. Before she came to MIT, she built wearable costumes ... group with a thesis titled "Amino: a domestic system for synthetic biology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful ... . Participants at the MUSE Colloquium displayed their summer research from 2010 via ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake-up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  useful. It certainly was used quite a bit! We had lots of referrals from ... Almost a year ago I wrote Going Social about adding the "Share ... then, So starting today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn't let a visit from the MV-22 ... getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  lot of attention from your host if you get here tomorrow, there are A ... Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day ... , unfortunately, I wasn't assigned a prefrosh this year. :( By the way, Mikey just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a ... that? Blogs: You're reading one now! We do have others from all corners ... -speed films. There's also a general MIT video gateway. MIT's home page: It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now alive and moving! We cut him from acrylic, slapped three motors and some omniwheels on him, and gave him a battery + eeePc. He's just now learning to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  to win this than a team from MIT? Register/Report Located Balloons ... ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into ... of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day ... that aren't worthy of a full blog post (like, for instance, announcing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging. Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... during CPW writing a live-action roleplaying game for the Assassins

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  : brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant ... to take that opportunity away from prefrosh. What they forget is that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  ? Anybody at all? 6.270 is a LEGO robot programming class that takes place during IAP. Not Mindstorms, but just tons and tons of LEGOs, sensors, and a ... all of the code is stored and run from. At the beginning of IAP we were

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to ... days to pack, and one night when Javi and I will order Thai food from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  time at CPW wasn't spent away from campus. I visited a few classes ... life more than I'd ever expect. From the myriad of future classmates I met, to the numerous fraternities I visited, to the awesome trips to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  you like it's from a crack in the ceiling. Not only that, but the Next ... broke at BC, everyone affected got a refund of $25 in TechCash from Larry ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six ... ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  they do. I've never seen a more packed Kresge. Not even for a Logs ... see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students from Professor David Wallace's Product Engineering Process (2.009) class

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006