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  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real full-time job! In other words, the past three months were a completely new experience

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  . Who: 9 students from MIT and UC Berkeley What: Biking across the ... hold “learning festivals”, teaching students subjects the cyclists are ... necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... , neutral red letters. Immediately inside, the left-hand wall displays a grid of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... !). The office will reopen on Monday, January 3rd. However, with the RA deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  , talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... since has been designated for the James ("Big Jimmy") E. Roberts, Sr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... 's your favorite part of your job?" President Hockfield: "You. The students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that ... 's all year and still happily gone off to graduate school in the fall. At

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a framing problem, which was developed quite early, is the 'lives saved, lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched the Macy's parade in a tee shirt. Actually, since that one snowfall, the ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  147 classes have graduated from MIT in its history; today, the Class of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... very own Matt McGann. You can follow the commencement on Twitter, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a good thing MIT isn't in the Northea...oh wait...      

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It's not Tennyson or anything, but... Oh MIT, OH MIT Many are the reasons ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever ... reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  Well, tomorrow is May 1st, the postmark deadline for reply forms. The ... questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... college choice. She starts things off with the following from golfer Kelli

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can outmaneuver any NYC taxi. The Motherland. I woke up last morning to the slow hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  Science) sophomore, the MIT African Students' Association's webmaster, and ... it to the blogs. Robert is passionate about web design and development, and is also really great at teaching. He's always the first person that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops ... week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  Hmmmmmmm, 18.03 PSET or blog? On the one hand I could be productive ... promoting my own well-being. On the other hand, I could also make the argument ... well-being. Now the question is, which do I enjoy more, blogging or 18

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... cut out in the middle. The hallways along the edges are lined with big windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students ... experience.   The effort spans the early phases of product development

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019