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• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  It's May 1st. Most of your friends have decided where they are going ... well at MIT.     First of all, please   and let ... ; 1. Are there normal people there?/Are 'my kind of people' at MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with, so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... quantum physics and thermodynamics. Three of my professors have Wikipedia ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... fantastically different culture and feeling of community!  My absolute favorite floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything ... where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places. But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... , especially in summer. Here are my picks: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court ... waitstaff began to fill the bars and the tables full of treats, while rows and

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... around 11:20 am; thanks to the number of spectators heading that direction

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... circling that piece of chocolate? Very MIT cool and quirky. The 150 exhibition was equally dazzling, showcasing 150 of MIT”s best inventions

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  Lots of students make money during term by working in their UROPs ... are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense ... , when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one ... than lolcats...hopefully. This year's theme is poverty, and a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a ... thing of great pride for a college, and they will entice good musicians ... all their own - Trinity happens to be one of them. Since I sing with my

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT ... '73 PhD '76, one of the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (of course, chaired by Ben Bernanke PhD '79). He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006