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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.

  

  the privilege of serving as the Department Head for EECS. EECS is the ... amazing range of opportunities for our students. The mantra of the department is "EECS is everywhere," because for almost every area of modern

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd ... , without worrying about problem sets, tests, and papers. For more info about ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  implementing capable lovable hand turkeys. For those unfamiliar with the concept ... . "They're for my friends at... uh...nevermind"). 2.) Gather friends and ... -oiled machine under her stern but gentle leadership and for the first time (ever

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  . Shockingly, I was pretty tired for my 9:00 AM lecture on Tuesday morning ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would have liked to make up for lost sleep on Tuesday or Wednesday night, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to ... shelter for raped and sexually abused girls. Her original plan was to ... share her passion for beadwork by hosting jewelry workshops for the girls

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco ... for inspiration? Let me introduce you to a few really wonderful ... stuff, for business, and for pleasure"), Instructables is kind of an open

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  and I have been working on it for hours upon hours. Basically that means we worked hard on problem one for 15 minutes, and then spent hours and ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  Z Center as I was getting changed for my evening run. Now, I didn ... inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the ... the student center, for dinner during his all-night vigils in lab. And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... contents of the periodic table for a quiz. This basically means that everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  Oh, it's been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a ... culture, developing four Western blots, and preparing some plates for ... cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which ... she struck a deal with me that we'd share payment for groceries, she ... for genetic changes linked to different types of addiction. After a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  House, and I was on my way to Baker. (pause for information) Just a few ... Orientation and lasts for up to two weeks. - Over those two weeks, you get to ... about classes, applying for jobs, etc. I discovered that fraternities

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  birthday problem. This class really helped me out for my finance interviews ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  myself how to use Photoshop for scientific applications today. Check out ... to be waiting for your grades for a week or so.) I've fulfilled all my ... ). Questions! 1. Thanks all of you for your kind words. I'll keep blogging as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  's blog for the day... Shaye: Are you sure this is legal? Yuan: Don ... MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan ... . Shaye: heheheh. Yuan: Hey Shaye, so do we have any inside info for Bryan

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four ... fifth one was breaking out a laptop for verification as we spoke. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  that I appreciated during finals week: For 10.213: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, we got four review sheets for the final. I know someone once commented on Laura's blog about getting cheat sheets for exams... you may ask

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... on "Leonardo da Vinci and the Search for the Soul" by world ... lie.) Saturday: 7:30 AM- 5:00 PM: MIT Habitat for Humanity workday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam ... journey through 14.33: Economic Research and Communication, my CI-M for the ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005