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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote-control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn ... be mad blog coverage of CPW over the next few days, so fear not. And finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... 't award second bachelor's degrees. As long as you don't already have an undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  Since its start (circa 1984) MISTI has sent over 350 MIT School of ... their skills abroad. Dima Ayyash Class of 2012 MIT-Germany Program ... explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman outside Baker House, one of the dorms on Dorm Row. I don't know why there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet Texter", 91 percent of people between 28-35 have used their mobile devices ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year ... degree since I would have a PhD as well? Right now, I think the answer is

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... congratulated me. I asked him to tell me about MIT, and he sort of spread his ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005