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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  proud of me.  First generation Latino and the first from my school to be ... rush week was the first full week of classes.  This week is career fair ... . Example – If it’s the first day of my first year of college classes, I will

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check ... is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face ... first impression of Manhattan was cemented by the shockingly audacious

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries of the first ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band ... while I sagely pondered the mysteries of the fox. After that, the course

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  his hand, the first thing that Col Wallen told the Det 365 Air Force ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  . Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ... on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  scary, but with the help of [annotation note="the most effective way to ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D7vbGagJvQ&feature=youtu.be CMS.335 is about the basics of principles of documentary, particularly the production of [annotation note="the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  It’s been four days since the beginning of sophomore year. That means ... -style hall that the idea for 8,726,400 SOS first sparked. Since then, seeing it coming into fruition has been an enlightening journey. The Journey of 8

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  MIT. In a few months, the Class of 2016 will register for their first ... eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  fuel, of course, but Aunt Jen got to it first and made some stock instead ... appetizing. Unless, of course, you believe the twelfth or so verse of "We Are ... Today, of all days, in Jonestown, PA, eight members of my family bore

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  representatives (some of whom tried to disguise the fact that they were representing ... , as a celebration of all the stress of senior fall: graduate school ... first went south, then to the coast, then up the coast, then back to Quito

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two weeks before it opened. I suppose as a member of the MIT community and a ... 's productions of Alice Underground. (Photo by CST) The tour was lead by Debra Wise

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University ... million dollars to found Minerva. The latter comes from the long list of ... (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... , always following the same pattern - a glimpse of immortality followed by a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  . Without further ado, I present my expression of feelings for the first ... wee hours of the night, With my 13.01 class in Procrastination ... scaled a few walls, all very run of the mill. I found sisters I can wake up

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  . Let me know what you think of the puzzle. Too hard, too easy, too short, too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved ... this series of directions to follow to find the train home. Discussion

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005