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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late ... programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration." Don ... entry of computer systems. Hacking is no less than the building of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  cover story. I'm so on to them.) I've always been one of those people who ... time." Next week is Thanksgiving, which means that some of the dining ... you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  " on Harvard logo in place of whatever Harvard's motto is Date: Campus ... Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some ... .com to force me to write walls of text and lose all of my progress if I ... windowsill of the Internet for the world to see.   That's what I usually

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  dorm on Thursday. While the prospect of a free dinner is typically ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... the culture of the MIT community. I figure that since I am sure to meet

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• 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…

  

  work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... are equipped with muscles that they need to walk, all they need is a little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a

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

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  imaginations (and engineering skills). Oh, and it is supposed to hold 2000 lbs of ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... now. The real reason I'm writing about this is because it's on my mind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... thing is important to explain, too. The school has lots of ways to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  a museum of home. The first thing I notice is an MIT flag on the wall ... Medicine and local newspapers. On the wall is a picture of Jordan Hall, where ... to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  construction outside my window. On one of my first days in Lausanne, I visited ... remnants of a temple, or maybe a marketplace - there was a sign that said ... that area is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  painter is working on a series of paintings of German puppetry, a journalist ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... Caltech. While at MIT I did research on pulsars, which are violently exotic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food ... to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was

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

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding ... lot to do this weekend, but I feel more on top of things this semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my ... minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  helpful to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things ... definitely by the end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with ... send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or all of ... 's nothing that I see to be lacking or needing improvement -- most of our ... end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... eye on scientific breakthroughs of the past decade or so: As a member of ... , he says, is no less than to reveal the molecular basis of human disease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006