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• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete ... existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  excited at the opportunity to solve all sorts of puzzles," she said. She ... . It's important to know when to back away from an issue in favor of ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... interaction reduces the amount of time you have to think yourself into misery. I ... and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  Embracing Uncertainty. It claimed to offer "breakthrough methods for achieving ... stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of ... them out of hand. She believed that the authors had something to offer

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  must come face to face with the implications of his increasingly souring ... 's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... the basic premise of the characters, the card-counting method, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... , forcing each defender to match up with one offensive player. this benefits

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... difference. I talked to a couple of the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL ... to the solution, so our product yield was half of its potential. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school. Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something like an emailed copy of my results to the head of our group would

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  managing your time since the beginning of the semester. (Note to future self ... dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... fell asleep at nine. So when I have a lot of work to do and don't feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference ... day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... happy there are moments where i force myself to stop caring about

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... exposure to a wet lab (a lab that makes use of chemical solvents. Examples of ... Center. Plasma physics is a tough branch of physics to study, particularly

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  fact. With the help of notes and rhythms, we are able to paint a picture ... creating a work of art. And to create a brilliant work of art, you not only ... excellent. It demonstrated, to audience members, the importance of a conductor

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in-game. The reason that The Game of Life has to quantify life experiences as

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... . His reluctance to answer ANY of our questions, even the seemingly ... returned outside shortly afterwards full of excitement. "You have to come in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  , students work in large teams of approximately 15 to 19 individuals to design ... previous years). At the end of the course, teams present their work to a live ... It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... say about me? i’m reminded of a poem i enjoyed recently: “They aim to ... response to the question, but i’m pretty sure it was a combination of “not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... were a professor asking this difficult question to a group of incoming ... the world?!” Not to mention that some of their faces would look like

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012