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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  ’t tell my colleagues in other departments I said that) department at MIT ... 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

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

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

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  readers are seniors, so for you, I have this mission (if you are in the ... breakfasts. I should note that in addition to the west coast and midwest, MIT ... & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• 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 ... all in when I looked over at another large silver tray arranged with ... . I was in the thick of reading applications as February whizzed by and

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  [/annotation]. [Monday 5/20] Started this blog post!I ate lunch at Chipotle in Kendall ... to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5 ... I've had in a while. There were eggs, nearly half a tub of Greek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found ... , perhaps I’ll pass in most (all?) categories, but if not, hey, it’s still A ... were harmed in the end. I acquired ~99% of college wisdom from fellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  , mindful, intentional. Last Monday for Veterans Day, I slept in, went to get acupuncture for sudden pain I was having in my foot, did some ... -shabu in Allston, and my friends and I stuffed ourselves complete (And maybe

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They Call Me Yankee, that I was spending my summer in Houston, Texas working ... , my friend Eric A. UH’15 and I explored Texas. We spent the weekend in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or ... legacy applicants; MIT doesn't.) MIT romance I met Adam in September of my ... girl, I was totally uninterested. In March of my sophomore year, Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  interest in bioengineering and medicine. I'm reading this for "fun" yes. I ... So with all this free time on my hands (not as much as I originally anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  flip in the air instead of a twist.   Wrote two essays. I ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very short period of time, and I spend all 15 hours a week in lab in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that ... you a Paula Abdul song if my life depended on it. I hang my head in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  met. (Girl) Ah, the scene I can't forget We were thrown together in the ... tongue I made a hit with you, you must confess. (Boy) Yes, you hit me in ... at Harlem (Girl) At the Bronx I murmured yes, (Boy) We lost no time in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  /the grocery store/class in the cold. So basically every day I've been ... is what I mean: Edit: Ruth pointed this out in her comment below- it ... , if you live anywhere in the area of this crazy "winter" (and I use that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  updates from us! April 3rd, 2020 Prospective students In our last update, I ... As I wrote above in the section for admitted students, based on these ... answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your judgmental stares poking my back) but I’ve actually been writing a lot. In fact

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... programming. I've got a background in programming, but they use Python whereas I ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010