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• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather ... was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has ... to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  vegetarians it's wrapped in a bacon weave and the recipe is from a guy named ... bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  being said, there is a 'cream rising to the top' phenomenon in public ... college, so this period is the most competitive era in college admissions ... stellar pool. The most important thing now is not to take this personally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... . My brain is filled with too much snot right now to remember what we ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  -defunct Digital Equipment Corp. "The spanning tree algorithm is something that's in ... happened to be in the audience and offered her a job. She joined Digital in ... 's OK by her. Perlman's reward is in the solving of the puzzle.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... in Sweden, I realized what I had to do.  I called the artist, Jane ... surprise I was sponsored to go to Sweden assist in the installation

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  pretty much ask anybody how to get to the Student Center (which is where ... one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  Hamlet is Shakespeare's most difficult play, as well as the greatest thing ever written in the English language, nobody has ever even come close to ... Starbucks company policy to take pictures in the store. I joked that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to ... in La Sala and headed back to 3-107. Note to Caltech students: the note

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... within a 0.25 mile radius haha. This is the meal I ate most: a turkey ... those lazy to watch, the tldr; is: I used a text-generating neural network

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... how every single thing in the Gamble House is rounded (even the mf ... look (which I mostly managed to refine in later iterations).  

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... , receive what might be called Technology Review++, that is, the usual ... . The highlight for many alums is the "Class Notes" section, a regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  idea of it was much different from actually committing to it. I spent the ... department we are in, so similar to MIT, there is an focus on exploring other ... them. I'm hoping to get most of the classes and credits to transfer over

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in the prior chord and then resolve it downward to create the most pleasant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  . Often, the story of your research involvement is much more interesting to ... admissions folder. 3. In theory, there is no absolute limit to the number of ... maintaining an A in that subject. Is the growth enough to balance out the intial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... adventurer from the desert who speaks music and Japanese and is never afraid to ... is Stan Gill. I was born in the liberal, temperate region known as the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... to the test. This is the pit area- where teams keep their robot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006