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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.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office ... consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  for people who have decided to switch dorms. Final dorm assignments go ... don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for ... far between, most people take postdoctoral positions for three to five

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  several places. Many people expected him to give up; instead, he asked for ... temple to rest. It was soon time for the second monk to try his luck at ... hurried to prepare towels and water for the second monk, thinking that he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the ... transit usage. This data can then be used, for example, to alleviate traffic ... warrant if looking to use the data for law enforcement purposes. Further

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  DTYD’s :) Some alumni came back to Burton-Conner for a post Fall Career ... last year decided to make a huge project out of it for DTYD L. The end ... a hack. This tradition is a great opportunity for the freshmen to bond

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals ... . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For this entry do you mind if we don't discuss applications? I need to switch ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... nice time to talk about MIT's campus organization. My goal is to teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... record for a 9 day adventure of 23.7minutes. I scurried along to submit ... . So I spread out and said goodnight to the world for a few hours. I woke

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  Elephantidae and Canis lupus for some reason, so I had to wedge Tufts University ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you're lying. I'm the only person ever who's asked this question, and I'm pretty

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take long-term commitments for clubs and stuff. and i'm not going to say, oh, i'm gonna use the time for personal projects or whatever. none of that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music with ice water and grapes (my personal favorite so far. Feasts like ... 's meal, all made here, by us, with friends. (See our calendar for the rest

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves ... love going to the ballet, eating famous Boston ice cream (such as ... Looney Tunes cartoons Advice about applying to college/MIT: Pay attention

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie ... Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer ... UROPed on campus all summer to work on the experiments for my thesis

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so ... exceptionally well to take full advantage of the personal opportunities that ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well.  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  .) After this, I had to leave for field hockey practice. I knew I'd be gone most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19 ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005