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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... free tickets to see the US women's soccer team play against China in NY ... -matched games of Taboo with Laura '06 and Vincent '07 a fortunate run-in with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , how to develop a Pinterest presence, etc. Fun fact: back in the day, the ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... pitching articles? Like some fancy writer in a Paris café, except in a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  instructors to students in the program, including some of the coolest names in ... probability. Probability is really the foundation of a lot of analysis in EECS ... the whole thing culminates in a term-long team project with a theme

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed ... reason to believe will yield a diverse and talented class," Hastings said ... he was "deeply honored" to be given the chance to lead the office on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  world, including in India and China, working together to build a plug-in ... our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy ... M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember ... remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... there's a cloud of information in my brain that's impossible to touch, but ... lot better prepared to be a working adult in a software or a research

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class ... .   participated in a quiz bowl tournament  some people on our floor were going to ... ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... , surely MIT must not waver in its mission to make the world a better place

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for the next 5 days or so. We hope to meet with 3 students from the University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  . Renaldo Webb, a Marrero, La., native who plans to study subatomic physics, is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT ... and 16 percent underrepresented minorities. The class weighs in with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... structure has to provide sleeping area for the 10 people in our class and ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... is to bring together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... thesis proposal about to be turned in. Reese what are you doing that is not how cat feet work That's better. I'm in a cooking group on my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when ... , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... ’o. “Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  always seem to be sharing the elevator with a stranger in awkward silence ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a ... it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... plans to do a doctorate in bioengineering at Oxford. Congrats to ... in brain and cognitive science, with a minor in literature. She has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009