Upcoming Events
Recent Blog Posts
Greed, Altruism, and Optics
Part 1: Greed I am easily MIT’s biggest free food fiend. Of course, everyone here loves free food and the Institute always has plenty to give out if you know the right places to look (spoiler alert: usually not the free food mailing lists). While I as a current MIT Technology and Policy Program student […]
Grad school is like high school for adults (in the best way)
When thinking about your K-12 experience, you may imagine putting on a blindfold, throwing a handful of darts, and seeing what sticks–you’re developing passions and discovering who you are. When thinking of your experience from high school to graduate school, however, you may imagine yourself sliding down a funnel–at one end, a teenager with a […]
Digital Dumpster Diving
I’m unreasonably proud of furnishing almost my entire apartment with second-hand finds. I learned the joy of sifting through discarded items on the side of the road early on. It was quite often that on the way home from soccer practice my parents would pull the car over to inspect a piece of furniture or […]
Recent News
Student spotlight: Aria Eppinger ’24
This interview is part of a series of short interviews from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, called Student Spotlights. Each spotlight features a student answering their choice of questions about themselves and life at MIT. Today’s interviewee, Aria Eppinger ’24, graduated with her undergraduate degree in Course 6-7 (Computer Science and […]
School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards for winter 2025
MIT faculty and researchers receive many external awards throughout the year. The MIT School of Engineering periodically highlights the honors, prizes, and medals won by community members working in academic departments, labs, and centers. Winter 2025 honorees include the following: Faez Ahmed, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Naval Engineering and Utilization and […]
Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named
The newly established Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) Professorships recognize outstanding faculty whose teaching, research, and service have significantly shaped the field of design at MIT and beyond. The appointments support a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, and the development of new educational approaches to design. These appointments mark the creation of the MAD Professorships […]
