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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  doubt getting some sort of degree in Course 7 with her award ... managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  next generation e-commerce startup. In stealth mode." By October many of ... with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover ... towards positions that offered the opportunity to do design work. I finally

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... taking a lot of classes over a wide variety of disciplines. These are known

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2018 are now available at >>>       ... of these students were academically competitive and well-matched, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  This past week was the first week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025