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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well ... too much" in the words of a popular website --delicious chicken ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him ... , I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best and brightest ... okay on it, and never went any farther (I had heard of the AIME but wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  first secret is revealed So over the course of the day on Monday, a ... night is when one of the more interesting parts of the celebration began ... done first. bryan: you're in charge. if the work isn't done, you're the

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  aspirations of its architects, and by the local and global communities that have adopted and reshaped it. In CMS.S62, we take the Internet as our object of study, and review some of the techno/social interactions that have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  freshmen and sophomores of my floor ventured into the woods of Andover, MA ... experience, and pretty much every step of the way i’d turn to him and say “oh ... least we actually did the pset!!!! and when we're living in this strange

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  malaria pills, and woke up to the sound of a cacophony of howler monkeys. I ... representatives (some of whom tried to disguise the fact that they were representing ... into a little suitcase and dropped it off at the hotel reception, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  thoroughly random conversation. One of the largest and highest-traffic talk ... started when Vogt '06 was up in the middle of the night and posed the question, If pi and e had a fight, who would win? Because the standard of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  . On the last section of both Parts One and Two, there is a link that ... are only one small part of the application, and the word limit will in ... those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  one of which will comprise my thesis and the next year and a half of my ... and work, which I guess is the point).     At the top left is a view of ... from my desk and my third of the office (one third belongs to my 6.047 TA

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  quick and dirty introduction to the fundamentals of circuit building and ... the study of markets as a whole. It's a pretty good time to be ... .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  . Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human ... employee requests, and due to the historic nature of this presidential ... -in and speech. In addition, for those who wish to watch more of the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  doors open the first week, a lot of people would come in and introduce ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... to as the Godzillas. I don't remember who was the first person of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT this year, the most in our history, and the first time the ... another, and when arranged together they constitute the constellation of the ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• 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 ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP ... readings, movie, activities and live music for the whole family!" What Makes ... outdoor screening of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;" all guests

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year ... enter a fourth year and do the equivalent of a one year Master's or MPhil ... undergraduate. I could go on to address some of the subtleties and differences in

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  hockey sticks, chanting, and strange content scavenged from the depths of ... it every CPW and REX since since [annotation note="the first year ... impacted by the nature of the event. they did an incredible job, and it was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls ... ) or crayons though, but with chalk. I blogged about some of the awesome

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024