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• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don ... of New York City). Finally! Listen to this fascinating Podcast of Paul ... every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks ... The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  capture the relevant aspects of the images." The images were "New York City ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that ... Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  University of California, Santa Barbara. Hammond is a professor of chemical ... . Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was Provost at Yale University ... them virtually via the webcast of President Obama's speech. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in ... Random Hall. One thing she doesn't mention is that one of the floors in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class ... were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... bunch of freshmen figure out where they'll be the happiest. What's not to ... the automatic sense of community that you get when you walk into a room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006