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• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  confuse your audience. It is a 1998 Fender American Precision Deluxe, black ... finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas ... Jazz (Ben has a Fender Jazz bass). In addition to the standard split

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... is a record number. With so many excellent applicants this year, it ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  ; etc. In short, this is for you to get a sense of some seniors ... 'll profile a senior each day, each an amazing person in their own right. The ... Today begins a weeklong event at MIT called Senior Week. During

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  where you’ll be attending college. In reality, that is such a small part ... . What I get out of MIT is a product of the work I put in. Everything that ... attention was trained on fall of 2015. For me (like I think it is for a lot of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... deal with the faculty and fellow students a few at a time, in your

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

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is ... share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  very impressive and set up in a crowded, dark attic. This picture is more ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big ... you, even though my favorite meal in the world is chicken and waffles

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me ... Genius Grant which is a no-strings-attached grant spread out over 5 years ... taught by a Nobel Laureate. Freshman in 7.012 this term have the privelege

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... Professor Ian Hunter (my UROP is in his lab!) in 3-370. 5:30-7:00 PM: Lecture ... -renown neurosurgeon Rolando del Maestro, followed by a talk entitled "Progress in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  for all three of them. This is in fact a theory we have actually assumed ... -defined, somewhat abstract, and entirely distracting. This is a more fleshed out ... while ago. So without further ado (keeping in mind that this is all very

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... (shown concurrently on our television with a giant strawberry dropping in Harrisburg and a white rose dropping in York), we played two party games that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  editorials. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as ... 't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think ... somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  was Enric Rovira. He's a master chocolatier in Barcelona, who is well ... tempered in different ways (one is glossier than the other). All in all, a ... outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is a little harder for your situation. You may be overwhelmed thinking ... 's review a few common questions you may have about enrolling at MIT.  

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... 're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since ... chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  answer is YES, you can. People will say this a million times - but if you ... of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get ... some sleep. MIT is just a liiiitle harder than most other colleges, so

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... . This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  intended midpoint, and see my friend Kamoya approaching me, in a significantly more reasonable-looking jacket. We take refuge from the wind in a ... UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  has its own atmosphere and culture." In fact the website is awesome, so ... , who's an upperclassman that lives in the same dorm. It's a great ... , you see the front desk: On the right is an Athena cluster, with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006