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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  it," he says. Now, he realizes that he has undertaken a task with no ... was acquired by America Online, and Kahle's next company, a search and ... Internet Archive, you can also see this with OpenCourseWare, MITWorld, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  with the structure of each individual dorm's [annotation note="or, exec ... sign-offs, regardless of the context. I think you can't go wrong with ... reading, Hope to see you there, Good luck with finals and have a happy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... hands with a rueful expression and said to me "That’s like asking me to ... school and marathon training to dispense with the doomed ambition and just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  prepositions), and mixed with a few people that are really really good at doing ... programmatically, like change its profile picture and search for somebody to follow ... . Not bad. If y'all have ideas about what I should do with this robot

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  dorms with dining halls (McCormick, Baker, Next, and Simmons) have to sign ... halls. And even with this in place, MIT still has had to subsidize dining ... past spring term, they came up with a plan – a plan that has been met

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  : Ever since college started, I haven't been able to keep up with bullet ... doodle with a random name each time you open a tab. It's very cute and ... of holiday gift package for people, and it's even more fun with friends

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  there was another, truer narrative, with luck as its theme. What were the ... story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business ... 's false humility with a point. My case illustrates how success is always

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

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  been filled with learning experiences recently; case in point: as it ... screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam ... EECS) with a bunch of sophomores/freshmen is great, particularly since

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  or something, not with any help of something mystical. Obviously this ... % not audience driven. Henry Jenkins interviewed him with questions that had been pre-arranged. Considering the people who came up with them

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  'm bleeding this about my awesome 120-mile bike trip with Tester Lab. I ... the hard classes and replace them with introductory bio classes. Not ... actually upset when they got finished with all 2,500 names, because it meant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  ’t fit the bill. With my newly declared major suddenly scrapped, I embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I emerged from my search with a surprising decision, choosing to change my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  visiting a random suite with our guides when a door opened and out walked ... prefrosh and their parents. As always, Snively handled the situation with ... , awakened. With my last remaining wits about me I took off my CPW Staff badge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  curve anymore, it’s a line. And you know what to do with lines, you ... started college. I arrived on campus with a relatively small first ... . Some people came to MIT with an incredibly high y-intercept. Their first

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  with modifying image pixel colors and locations. It was honestly a really ... chose this one i found by searching for “dancing old man” on google ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzKURp_OJV0 ... it's 1:50 now. here's caleb with the lowdown of what's goin

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  described the collaborative, cosmopolitan vision of MIT with more eloquence ... with you all. Here's a video of the speech, and below is the text. For ... start with a friend named Joshua greeting me with a dramatic hair flip

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends ... on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, was in TIME’s 30 under 30, and ... appeared on Shark Tank and got a deal with Mark Cuban. Daniel Fine, founder

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career ... wasn’t sure whether to declare a double major or settle with a minor ... field anyway, so why not start early with a relevant degree? MIT did not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  frequently with prospective students revolutionized the admissions ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the ... LOVED IT. We had a duty to our readers to come up with a way to offer just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  extracurriculars are playing tug-of-war with your attentions, it's sometimes ... extracurriculars- and with the admissions blogs being the thrillers that they are, it ... any topic*. Take poverty, for instance- a perfunctory search on the Tech

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  people in other fields, too, but we’ll see. For now, I’ll just start with ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task ... was written by human hands. I start with this very broad overview

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020