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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 ... terrified about saying anything for fear I would expose the fact that everyone

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

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you ... interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... 150 in attendance. So I'd booked a room that holds 150+ and figured

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  home, and what falls in between. And yet, while I stress about what I ... would happen? How can we believe that it is occurring? But we are also ... , here you go. I think it represents very well how we are all feeling about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... graduating high school and moving into college, I graduated in a lot of other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  and who works in/around the field of interactive fiction. I think it ... Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms, including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  ![/caption] Amber: What was your role(s) in the club last year?  Audrey: I started ... . Amber: I’ve enjoyed the vibe every time I hung out with Arcturus. How ... and 3rd in design, winning $1.5K in prizes. I’m so proud of the team for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about Buster Keaton where I had trouble in high school writing about, say ... . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24.02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... Houston explained how working at startups in high school and his frustration ... companies. She explained in fascinating detail how her lab developed tiny

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  faculty and administration in the cooperative manner I described in “Colors ... advance minority standing at MIT. Keeping this in mind, how could we move ... accordingly, and student feedback was still important. I held “Office hours” in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... ! Mitra was all, "oh, let's run 8 miles, Spammy" and I haven't learned how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... ;QuestBridge" on the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... edu. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  Service Center. In my 'Two Videos' entry from December, I briefly mentioned that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... Dubai to Ahmedabad. Half-asleep, I then got in a taxi and drifted in and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  (sophomore fall had me HOSED), I sent in a dance video and a performance video ... would typically permit. I'm so impressed by the committee's passion and ... in the virtual environment and not have a clue how to reach out to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... wrong, and that's when an upperclass shadow would step in to give us ... here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force.

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and ... really liked 4. Nonetheless, here are the best movies I saw in the theater ... weeks, but I have already seen the movie multiple times in theaters. A lot

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  semester, “That’s so cool! I would’ve loved that as an undergrad.” “... oh ... -Y mode allows you to visualize how “out of phase” (i.e., out of sync) two ... in mind, let’s see how everything fits together. There are no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  .011 is "traditional" physics, but I'm not sure exactly how one would be ... pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I ... -altering growth. Over the summer, I fell in love with the idea of building something ... in this place full of opportunities and knowing that I failed to grasp

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  graduation last night, mostly because I believe strongly in keeping up a tough ... repeatedly in your lives is how to use the talent and the education that you ... . I was secretly hoping that he'd slip in a line at the end like "And in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006