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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.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... definition is small), having graduated from a completely unknown university. I

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  fight, my bets would be on Maria. The moral of the story is that I had a ... , UROP is a research program at MIT that actually has nothing to do with ... design*. Scoring a research position is by far one of the best ways to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  't have a final, and isn't a CI-H? No problem. Firehose is most useful for ... which I ended up pursuing. There is a new version and an old version of ... their overall ratings are, as well as a few other details like how many

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I ... really is. I traveled - at the end of 2022, I flew in a full circle around ... finally happened.  On the surface, this is objectively a wonderful life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  ’ perceptions about letting their kids go far from the roost for college. It is a ... ’s become familiar and comfortable. The point is: take a chance to forget the ... and familiar, but college is a chance to pave your own way and make your

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  control boxes, participants get to take a cruise of Boston Harbor and learn ... classes. The best entries will be posted on this blog. There is a ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... , it went off without a hitch, with about fifty staff members and 400 ... of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how ... feels right that next semester is my last. It's a funny thing, one minute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... , there is sometimes so much free time after you get out of your UROP ... kayaks, though, is on a first come first serve basis, so we dragged

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student ... , or the Green Building is tall. Or, maybe I should dream bigger—how ... the question—the question is,  How does one become WIDE?  At first, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  (-23C), although most of the winter is much warmer. Boston is a lot more ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number ... assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the rhetoric about how Iran is "one screwdriver's turn" away from a nuclear weapon is false and misinformed; how Iran's leadership is divided on ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused ... , who is on language number 5, best friends with a milk frother, and ... Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  remembered what it really meant and how we all have done it. We all pulled a ... excited. Science fiction is my favorite genre, and I would love to take a ... .012, which is a 15-unit two-part class consisting of a structure of materials

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  look slightly blurred; that much is a consequence of focusing on the ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... of was the existence of the sights. There is a rear sight, above the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... imagine "casually drinking" from a flask is one of the less threatening ... do you mean, 'good morning'? Do you mean that it is a good morning for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  Terzan 5. The "rotation measure" describes how much the linearly ... friendships, the making of which I became convinced is the primary purpose of a ... of the talks pretty much summed up the experience: "THIS IS SO EXCITING

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ... universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself   something in which the only constant is change because time marches forward

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 7, 2024