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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  to learn to fly and is looking at taking pilot lessons over the summer ... ; I wrote the second part after having not seen them for a few days. Ah ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  Today is the official beginning of Spring Weekend at MIT. The highlights include the always-popular International Fair ("I-Fair"), the ... is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring Concerts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• 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 ... is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle ... -defunct Digital Equipment Corp. "The spanning tree algorithm is something that's in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... from all over campus, and the dorms that offered RBA were not necessarily ... 'stin asked, "can you talk about the residence-based advising

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they ... always the more difficult semester for me). Although I'm not as involved as ... two weeks. Our work is not graded, so there's not too much pressure to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... two meals every day. Maseeh’s minimum freshman plan is the “Full 19 ... 15 in less than a month. But the problem with meal plans is that they

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0507456, he is in the process of ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  , the guy I'll be working for is an alum of MIT's transportation master ... !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  ... I will admit this may not qualify as a "real" post as it is ... 've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  characters into the mix, suddenly your goals are not nearly so easy to achieve ... visit MIT you'll check to see whether the Guild is running a game that ... costumes, the Guild is also a great place to show off your latest masterpiece

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  is or is not "fair." Have I made the point that one learns a lot more ... The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an annual Robotics challenge ... eighth grade science teacher - who I honestly believe is the reason I am

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch ... too. Why did you decide to do a master's? Xian: The main reason is that ... : Yeah. I guess we're not really at the vantage point to pass judgment at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making ... is an experienced archer - and no, I'm not talking about the FX ... A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2011. We received

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  is the best extracurricular I should be doing right now? How do you ... smell of hookah smoke in the air. I thought to myself, I’m not ready to ... reconsider, yet again. One of the many people I look up to is my AP Stats

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... decided to share some (but definitely not all) of the highlights, explain ... could find. Although the result is minorly atrocious, it acts almost like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  green if the sun is up, ginger turmeric if not. i've been reading and ... going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  maximizes the time you spend on problems, which is, surprise, what the exams ... . My current action plan is to minimize watching lectures and reading the ... the real world and how intentions mean squat if you're not getting it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... available. I hope this is somewhat helpful to those of you in the homeschool ... and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006