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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... is responsible for “all things students!” From my perspective, this is

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my ... records in the dead ball era. Same for songs. I swear I remember the lyrics ... are for longer narrative pieces, with a lot of meaning and effort behind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  I'm completely hosed with post-CPW communications right now, and will be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... video while here on campus for CPW:

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... sure it has been that way for the past two and a half years, but it is ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... for the bags upon bags of swag: Conventional wisdom from upperclassmen indicated that for freshmen, there’s not much point other than swag

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  beside the lonesome bus stops in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the ... for International Communication – a.k.a. English for the business setting. So…..my job is basically developing test questions for the TOEIC

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  video (among many others)? OK Go has a new video for their song "End Love ... directed by MIT alums! The video for "Last Leaf" was done by Nadeem Mazen '06

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  So we're almost an hour past May 3, which means you SHOULD have finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without ... have a test over in 5 hours". IAP in fact stands for "It's Awesome

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  Midyear Report: This online form is required for all applicants, including ... as needed. The Midyear Report also includes an opportunity for you to ... application. Using the Midyear Report for such updates is preferred over mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  . Maybe I'm a little crazy, but isn't that just too cute for words? :) The ... entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of wind chill that eats Jack London novels for breakfast. 10:00 AM: Toast ... writing my undergraduate research (UROP) proposal*. It's like yoga for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  . I'd been putting off this day for weeks. But it could be put off no ... on Tuesday Night Yesterday I finished two 11-page essays for the same class. Rhetoric is not a HASS I recommend for the particularly faint of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM. At 4:45 AM I will have been awake for 24 hours. This means that I could ... time for BATMAN! I was supposed to get there at 10 but was about five

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go on thursday, too. Yeah, life isn't so bad. Turns out I'm not nearly as

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion ... that The Walt Disney Company had purchased MIT for $6.9 billion. More

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late-night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just ... Part II, 4) d?" Me: "No, solving for k was impossible, not even

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  , and Saad Zaheer and myself from MIT. We'll each speak for ten minutes, with the remaining 50 minutes reserved for questions, answers, and debate

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of ... ! For hundreds of wide-eyed freshmen who have never seen significant amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  for this lab: "You just graduated from MIT and are traveling around Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a ... building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007