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• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... embarrassing, and one awesome. I'll let you decide which is which. A Trip to Mount Auburn Hospital I admit that a trip to the hospital wasn't really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... hearing other a capella groups perform, my desperation to join the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang ... ’s fall but the weather is still nice. We go to a nice part of campus and ... ’t have the feel of walking around campus to it like I wrote. More a feeling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all ... the typical MIT student with a huge ego I say to Matt and Ben "Psh, I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a ... those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research ... the design of a bioreactor. Basically, the goal of the bioreactor is to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... information? I have SO MUCH I want to share with you! A4) I am excited that you ... pitch" about your Maker projects. You have a short amount of time to

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... the scene. The table, first of all, had to be made. We used a roll of painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  from a pleasant distraction to a moderate disturbance, but to me, it was a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two ... , and they responded with a level of excitement that I’ve come to expect

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... that a broad audience can relate to? There was also an interesting thread ... headed over to room 26-100 to get in line for a sneak preview of the new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  by. Now, it took me a minute to understand what he said, because the ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... with a cliffhanger--Ruth asking about an entry on David Hasselhoff. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned ... learning communities). I'm hoping to do a spring UROP, too. I'm pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by ... funds that way. This blog entry is a humble request for you to check out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool ... to using heavy machinery, there was a lot of "station work" where ... ) I ended up with . . . I like to call it a spastic spider bot, even

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• 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…

  

  attempt to make a robot that imitates humanlike walking as much as possible, the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... are equipped with muscles that they need to walk, all they need is a

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

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  a few minutes to spare (on MIT time). T-6 mins before exam begins. 11 ... .01. Can’t figure out a part of a part of a problem. Noooooo. Time to go to ... convenietnly opened up. Would love to take a nap, but it’s time to discuss

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool ... try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  our solar system, and getting a broad introduction to the universe using ... and very special. But I want to start by introducing a class that isn ... went to a Burchard Scholars reception, where I identified Prof. Bahr by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013