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• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... congratulated me. I asked him to tell me about MIT, and he sort of spread his ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this ... capricious and an abuse of discretion" on behalf of ICE. The lawyers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... bunch of freshmen figure out where they'll be the happiest. What's not to ... the automatic sense of community that you get when you walk into a room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has ... long after writing that blog, though, I had a bit of a breakthrough in ... general relativity, and all of a sudden I was reminded of just how

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane ... Sasisekharan, a professor of Biological Engineering, and did his senior thesis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... night they showed the final game of the three-game set between the ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  supporter of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She has an economics degree ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of ... People’s Day. As we do so, let us reflect on the richness and resilience of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  degree of creativity and their deep understanding of current and ... before.) The page has been well-liked and well-used. But research of ... perform better (it’s both highly used and a frequent source of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... Reif argued against the possible repeal of DACA. You should read the ... me here: As the president of one of America’s leading technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009