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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... different facets of art here at MIT, followed by some casual chitchat about ... onlookers into the piece. I found myself staring intently at the soft light

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  failed attempts at inventing a commercially useful incandescent lightbulb ... it as both an "epic fall" and an "epic fail." He also laughed at me for ... a blog about revolving doors at MIT. I don't know how these things are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... the few women in the field. At a vendor meeting where engineers were ... about computers? "At the end of the meeting, the organizers still called

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum: Furthermore, Douglas wrote, at the time there was an “existential issue ... now, at last, to the knowledge that our rich and prosperous nation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  room at absolutely no cost. According to the MIT List center’s website ... Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years, including this year, my final one at this esteemed institute. Not only have I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid ... for CityLab. Yet it feels as though I’ve lost (at least part of) my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . In my case it's choice A.] On the 4-hour drive up, we stopped at Taco Bell (mmmm...soft tacos), and finally arrived at my parents' cabin around ... (my Mom recently got a Wii at her retirement party), and headed to bed

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture ... 's possible. I thanked him for setting up such a great admissions process/website

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  River" -- although my classes are all at the medical school campus, which ... are all at Mass General Hospital. So really I'm more across the river ... student than I was as a UROP. Well, at least my paychecks are bigger.) I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  . 18th, Mira Loma, Sacramento session." Aha, oops. You can RSVP at http ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Instead, I thought I’d show you guys one of my essays through Google Docs revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... time, and marvel at how this is the first time you’ve ever seen the green ... eecs-sponsored events where mit students are encouraged to work at tech

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  and do the things i never got a chance to do before or at MIT, but ... class, which used to motivate me to wake up at 9 am, now inspires only dejection at the thought of leaving my bed. each day, when i roll out of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... authentic Mexican food (which I know many would yell at me for not doing), but ... schools, we hosted a central meeting on Wednesday, 9/17 at a place called

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... conceptually. This may be for a few reasons. One may be that [annotation note="at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  On today, Ben Jones's last day at MIT (no!), let's take a look back at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... when you see that picture at the top change to clean-shaven Ben, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over ... the Panama Canal Zone, at the time an American enclave filled with ... become. In 2004, during my tenure as Director of Financial Aid at MIT, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  few strong beliefs about [annotation note="They believed it started at 1 ... professor adored W.M. because they were adept at juggling mathematical ... , not so much, perhaps because they found W.M. rather… uncooperative at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a ... Auditorium together, where Premiere was being held at 7:00. We were a little ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  international, but this is not important for the conversation at hand ... posted at 12:15 PM Eastern. I drew my topics at 9:51 AM Mountain (11 ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020