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• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• 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 ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering ... the privilege of serving as the Department Head for EECS. EECS is the

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs ... 's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5:15: "MIT is the Harvard of science." 5:32 to 5:41: "Taiwanese at MIT are ... in Taiwan and the ballistics leader of Taiwan." Host: "Taiwanese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause ... think tank, like the Brookings Institute. There are more varieties of ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... : On each daily webpage there is a summary of the day's material. These

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  by walking past it a few weeks ago (it's a bit out of the way). They ... pick up line in the comments, and if you want to see more of what is ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because ... be. I was turned down by three of the ten schools to which I applied ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  that added another degree of freedom. I tested out some options on the ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it ... the fairest treatment of waitlisted students. If you need more time: If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... ’s under Stata. But!!! I'm crazy excited that the classical theory of ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet ... environment is overly competitive -- MIT is probably one of the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  students we will be able to admit to the Class of 2018. If you have any ... If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should have received an email from us last Friday about completing the Wait List

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  , because Michael covered it fantastically. That's the outside of Clover Food Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a ... kitchen) -- not inside the truck! 2. The city of Boston requires food

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... . If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of-the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014