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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school or fellowships, so let me bring you up to speed: Astronomy Graduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... have time to pursue other things as well as research? 3) "Do you know if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  "), we admitted 1715 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  airport, awaiting the plane that would take us to Minneapolis en route to Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... work, and we listened as the students stood up to receive their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright, Subpoenas, and You." I laughed. Of course they'd have to remind MIT students about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... -analysis - what is important to you?: You may have done one before, or avoided it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like ... studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in 1949 to get his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rennselaer Polytechnic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... ) Conference. Since MIT is hosting the conference, MIT-EMS needed to provide

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... one simply cannot afford such luxury. this semester, I have gotten to ... losing funny points in front of Jonathan, the constant struggle of man to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024