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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 ... your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office

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

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  my degree in Management Science), I can say that the department is ... only problems I can write without special characters). A1. Basketball ... undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... crystals in the chocolate. Here you can see the difference between chocolate

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive. As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space ... chagrined about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  , why don't I let Professor Machover speak for himself. You can read a ... One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  of our noise. :) I played in the Assassins' Guild tenday game. My ... few days of game (I know I don't give you guys a lot of photos in my ... The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  back row and settled in. I saw people wearing matching bucket hats ... the class photo, I don't think my mind ever conceptualized how many ... Ring Delivery. But in the meantime, it's crazy to think that I'm almost

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  segments, which are then robotically assembled in space.  For my project I ... techniques. I can't wait to start. ... Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up ... of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... quickly-edited montage of everything I filmed, including little bits in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  , Japanese, and two programs in Chinese. I do know two people who have taken ... course, I'm sure there are many, many great classes at Harvard in every ... indiscretion, I'm actually only three classes away from a degree in chemistry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it ... point in my senior year; I believed I was torn between Olin and MIT, but ... awesome weekend. (Fine, you can't actually take the class of 2014. I think

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being ... , and added what I could find. Out of curiosity, I also looked him up in ... somehow? In the past two weeks or so since I filled out his Wikipedia page

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  Leatherman in your pocket?) and I supported the window with a knee and both hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... much faster reaction time than I do, since in the seconds it took for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day ... incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign-ins

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  Mural Status of Women Faculty in Science (P.S. I got this list from the ... beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities ... months now to gather all the history and artifacts they can muster to make

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... Australian man ever actually said was “I don't need to believe in God to ... and another freshman were the only skeptics in the audience. I asked

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  Back in Massachusetts! And Rush stuff is starting! *excited* There's building in the courtyard. I'll take pictures as soon as I replace the ... 't care how much you like your temp assignment. I'm sure Mollie, who's a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  day. I can't remember for the life of me if this painting was by ... off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017