Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... Chancellor at the University of Cambridge is the Duke of Edinburgh. I recently

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... are a group of people at MIT who do this sort of thing all the time ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for ... paintings by one of the inmates. I remember staring at those pictures, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  humanistic academia. At a certain level of analysis, we're a little like oil ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... technical field. A badge of honor at the Institute, e.g., "Nerd Pride". (2

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

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and ... Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... to privacy," said one Sox official. "Most of our pitchers go there at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  took of all the awesome stuff at Maker Faire: At the entrance LEGO had ... iron with thermite: Lots of folks at Maker Faire love bicycles. There ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems from this year's integration bee at MIT. But first, a little bit about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  apartments over 2 days - all in 90-degree weather. There were all sorts of ... weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  healthy! My program has at least three hours of lecture every day and the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  :50 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... :50 A.M. on a Monday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... implemented a randomized algorithm at work today that I’m proud of. Thank you, 6

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  of Sunday afternoon brunches at IHOP after the wait at the Friendly ... had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  (currently pursuing graduate degrees at MIT), and MIT President Emeritus ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... nationwide. The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  at CPW to go through every single one, so I'll just highlight some of ... later on. You could find free dinners at a lot of the frats, snack ... dinner with the Society of Women Engineers, junk food at the academic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006