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• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman outside Baker House, one of the dorms on Dorm Row. I don't know why there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet Texter", 91 percent of people between 28-35 have used their mobile devices ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year ... degree since I would have a PhD as well? Right now, I think the answer is

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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