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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.

  

  post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to ... applaud great ideas and to facilitate or support individual initiatives and ... are chewing up time and mental energy. Too often, students assume that

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

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  dedicate the full measure of their time, passion, and energies to admitting ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... dreaming up MyMIT and the blogs, and to everything else that goes on behind

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  , admissions definitely does have blogger athletes. Anyway, back to pistol and ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... , chilling with two more turkeys Andrew '11, Michelle '10, and I decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  lab. I am happy to report that it does, and I spent a few minutes ... means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... lab by 9 AM -- I needed to run some gels and generally be a productive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  groups we have helped create - and CPW is our chance to show those off to you, to show you what MIT means to us. And, even more importantly, it ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  fishing line, and much, much more. Corporate sponsors are also there to ... How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a ... your pizza flashes red, and turns solid once its been completed. Then the ... that had been mailed to my dorm room to the library and they gave me an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... --the 6 classes everyone must take to graduate"]GIRs,[/annotation] and [annotation note="Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences--everyone must take 8 to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  consider when deciding who to admit. Realistically, how much does the failure ... powerful pulpit to write and speak extensively about how to navigate the ... in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and I was in no way obligated to work that much. I ended up joining a ... for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even ... my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  time and energy to academics and social life. Overall, it’s a great ... records — and that was only last year.  According to our athletics website ... -athletes to get their take on sports at MIT and the current 2023 fall season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Halloween Every day in organic chemistry is a holiday.

  

  Happy Halloween from my organic chemistry professor, Professor Buchwald, and yours truly! Because organic chemistry doesn't always have to be soulless. And neither does applying to college - remember

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  matures and dreams and realizes that there is so much more to me than the ... workshop has taught me to really lean into those feelings and that discomfort and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial ... off the bedside table, tumbles to the floor and, thanks to shock ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post ... does, however, come with a title: "Cookie Monster." The answer, by the way, will be a six-letter word. Good luck, have fun, don't cheat, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  . Ever since I've dropped it and returned back to four classes, I am much ... wanted to update with some thoughts and things since the spring semester's started. 1. I dropped 6.009. So, after much deliberation and consideration

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . So much so that acceptance is really down to luck, and whether you can ... does it really take to get in and whether or not I still have a shot at ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... difficult to think about world beyond MIT. And that's only my excuse. You

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  , take your plantain chips, oregano, and garlic powder and crush to your ... either boil sweet potatoes, then peel them... Or you can cheat and buy ... , so here it goes. Disclaimer: I kinda eyeballed everything and nothing

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006