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  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively. In the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... , Frédo Durand in graphics, and Hanspeter Pfister at Harvard’s Visual

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour of MIT's campus for people who want to know what it's like to be at MIT ... roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... articulate MIT's mission for the next 50 years (this is a topic for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety ... Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  ; washing dishes is a job for a dishwashing machine, okay. Labs at MIT are ... you for your work). More importantly for me, labs at MIT are more likely ... support for me at a smaller school like MIT than there would be at OSU

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  punted it down the road, and some made no changes at all. For me, it seemed ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... Undergraduate Association rallied hard for faculty to change their semester plans

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  enjoy the culture? Is MIT somewhere you can see yourself being at for the ... , this kind of access to research jobs at MIT is almost unbelievable. For ... humanities and science education at MIT." First off, here are a few things that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  ’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself ... brand new environment for me—I’m sitting at a desk, not a lab bench, but ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  interests. Since we're already looking at Course 8, let's look at 8B, for ... fields that are totally unrelated. For me I love both physics and ... are different options you can follow to study multiple fields. For two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  , that I work at MIT, and the deadlines for our summer programs are fast ... talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  assigned as a cook. Stationed at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Helena for four ... years, he had been a constant familiar face at the house for visiting ... , talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  Thai and MMA classes at the same gym. I went to a boxing gym for a little ... ="347"] My door for at least 3 years at East Campus[/caption] [caption id ... now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  , I registered for my last class at MIT. Actually, I registered for two ... qualifying exams), became a vegetarian, and started training for triathlons. Aside from that, I still live at ZBT as the resident advisor (GRT in

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  for another dinner afterwards at one of my favorite restaurants ... interviews. Finish interview at 2:05 PM and head to airport for 3:55 flight. I ... . No theme song this morning. POWERPREP Time. Leave for testing center at

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a ... initially concerned at that MIT would not have enough humanities for me, not ... Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  ; you're only here for two class days. When you're at MIT, you'll have ... time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... well-matched host for the weekend. Tonight, we had a meeting with the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008