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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  anticipation. If you're unfamiliar with the decade-long project, let me sum it up for you: Opera + Robots = WIN. Okay so it's a lot more complicated ... Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary ... I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  , as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... comments or emailed me questions only regarding MIT. I'm sorry, it just makes ... be best friends and you don't end up getting accepted, it's not going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... about Med School A's demonstrated commitment to diversity amongst its students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  about why "hard tech" startups are hard, and why they're still worth it.  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  our terrible jokes, but they assured us that hey, it's Montana - you have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... homeland of the Crow Nation, and is 95% Native American to this day. It is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  show up with a check in hand asking how much it will cost," she says ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... intensity of the admissions process and constant news reports warning how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  , experiencing it for myself gave me a deeper understanding for how much it truly ... shortly after I left).  I can see how it’s the little moments that keep ... by lush, pseudo-Scottish foliage and location tagged it “Scotland, UK

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  criteria, whether it is the very first or very last application read. There ... , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... missing documents, as it may slow down our ability to process the documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year ... choose one place over the other, let me know... It happens to the best

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  México, which is only like a 5 minute walk from where my cousin lives. It ... inside of the house, but it was definitely pretty. I always get weird in museums, so a part of me did have a existential moment about how these

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  and is the third of its kind. Its main focus is to see how children ... have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how ... offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very thoughtfully, “This tastes like detergent.” That's how I lost my fear of cooking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  how high it was going to go, we were kind of just like... Well, not ... It's snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT ... later?). My roommate also just proposed that we figure out how to simulate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  . She’s a good mom; she understood. But then it was just me and a group of almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out ... started looking for a house. It sucked, definitely one of the more stressful

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip ... sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  Every once in a while something so noteworthy comes along that it ... MITAdmissions home page or because I just like seeing my own face, it's simply ... . Hasbro is awesome, they care a lot about what they do, and it was fun to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  bored of the laundry list of musical accolades, so it was refreshing - and ... Longy, and their height ratio was about 1:2. It was a very strange ... my friend Davie '12 (who was also at the concert) put it, he had three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• 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't even think it was glass, because I didn't think 3D printing glass was ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015