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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... laboratory of Drew Endy, now an assistant professor of bioengineering at ... last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There ... . 2. You actually need study skills at MIT. Okay, so this is kind of a ... instance. At the beginning of the semester, I dutifully sat at my desk in my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  jumping-off point to other destinations at MIT. ... In all of this ... degree of creativity and their deep understanding of current and ... for this site, though it was carried through by the team at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... completely worth it: Did you hear the voices at the end of the video ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again ... the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  . That's a lot of degrees between the two of them, and these guys know what ... sit in the back of the lecture hall at one of his MIT classes and could ... presentations, as the freshmen were hard at work over the course of the week

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• 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 / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  umbrella of the Dept. of Geography at Tel Aviv University is the only Urban ... Since its start (circa 1984) MISTI has sent over 350 MIT School of ... their skills abroad. Dima Ayyash Class of 2012 MIT-Germany Program

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  everything, I picked a spot at the back corner of the room. Right at noon, the ... minutes later, I found myself holding my weights at a 90 degree angle to my ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large ... . I wanted a challenge, but I didn't want it at the expense of ... . (This is kind of a duh. But I wasn't thinking of it at the time.) 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  fair held at MIT, but it's one of the more interesting ones. (In the ... Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005