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• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She pursued a career on the Wall Street trading floor after completing several demanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... celebratory atmosphere. I made my way from North Station to Kenmore Square

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , the top of the boat lifting out of the water with how fast we were going ... hundreds of LEDs inside which turned on and off individually. Using this sphere, they could farm a lot of training data on how hands looked in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... good enough. This is one of the world cup ski slopes! "pista Copa del Món ... series of euros printed with the Andorran seal. On the seal, you can see

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  .07), we spent a lot of time on tests like ANOVAs, t-tests, and F-tests. In ... UROPs at Whitehead (none at Broad that I know of, because the new building ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought ... you all. Try new forms of athletics. Yoga. I’ve been getting into ... friends, like going to Celtics games, exploring a new part of Beacon Hill

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can ... being on break has let me catch up with some of my closest friends, make ... .) And finally, I've been catching up on a number of DIY projects I've been

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with freshman orientation quickly approaching, that time of year is upon us! As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  actually happened on Monday, which makes it the most normal day this week. Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  . So I try to turn to the thing that usually does a good job of making me ... , maybe it is that deep. Lifting yourself out of soft ice gets tiring fast ... I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... . What they can do is impose a fine on *not* consuming the good, but still offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  admission will not be rescinded on the basis of cancelling an AP exam you had ... impact of these changes on credit placement at MIT. The first thing you ... cannot join us on campus until they have successfully completed 14 days of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends ... on the couch of an MIT dropout and spent my days solving programming ... 've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  of way! My Favorite Moments "Yeah, one time I swallowed a bee" - My ... . *happily shows us his set up for the virtual semester on the second day of ... he was commenting on the strange nature of virtual classes, where in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot.  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  + 10,480 mi MISTI Internship - Santiago, Chile Fast facts: One of the ... version of the Google Translate app, and you’re good to go. Of course ... actually trying to reach me. The good thing is every so often one of those

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015:  ... - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what ... case/project work featured on our website each week. We hope you enjoy it ... sea areas. Building upon earlier NERA work on behalf of DG Environment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  mess (me). One benefit of having to walk a long way from Next House to ... into my mouth while i was sitting on top of that statue in killian court ... see some kid squatting on top of the statue and wolfing down pita bread

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021