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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not ... people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of ... In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

   School of Engineering. The program aims to educate young engineers to build ... personal and interpersonal skills. Students will get an SB degree from the department they will be majoring in and a NEET Certificate in one of these
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  , influential positions at the GAO, the Institute of Medicine, the Department of ... employed tool. Knowledge of specific technologies will never be assumed ... 't, but I assure you that the cultures of these institutions make them the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of ... them out of hand. She believed that the authors had something to offer ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  .) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet ... not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which ... 's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  "]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do ... 'm preserving this image of a CHILD by embedding it here[/caption] On June 5th, 2016, I left behind most of my remaining earthly possessions and hopped

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011 MIT-France Program 2011 Internship: Institut Pasteur, Paris This

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... shows a lot of tough love, and like all institutions, it has several ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Chocolate ... Institute of Technology. Except this was not a materials science class. It was ... One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  all MIT students. MIT is one of the few institutions in the world that ... for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... the luxury of being within walking distance of one of the world

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  think tank, like the Brookings Institute. There are more varieties of ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  Practice, which offers real-world technology cases and projects from partner ... an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  Well, today was my last day of class as an undergrad. Technically the last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology ... think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006