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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and ... its stuffing. ^Cast and crew. What is your favorite part of your job ... . Especially when it comes to script development with the students - I’ve learned

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... breakfast, while my brother and I groggily walked to the kitchen. I liked it ... liked to put sugar in it, and my mother drank it like soup, with layou and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... meetings. but it takes time to set up the infrastructure for good knowledge transfer, and it's easy to forget something small, like transferring a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  chances to meet the bloggers- and everyone else! Anonymous said: Is it ... to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  we made an epic cake for him, but didn't have pictures to show until now. Requisite background information: his research project is to model ... Array (of radio telescopes) in New Mexico. This is what the Whirlpool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Sun. "What Radia did was to put the basic traffic rules into place so it ... there that is completely taken for granted," he said. "It doesn't deliver ... improvement, she redesigned a program with graphics such as turtles to make it

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

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  isn't actually testing for H1N1, so there's no way to know if I have it ... ", which is where I went to figure out what to do. I called a phone number ... can e-mail professors. So for now it's up to me to just hydrate, chill

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , especially when no one is explaining it to the guys working alongside me. But when the pattern grows more subtle, it’s harder to address. I also ... ride it and stand to the side. My insurance would take a hit if I crashed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  common critique of the MEng program is that it allows students to “hide out ... undergrad, I found it difficult to context-switch between so many obligations ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  recording of it. Tidbit #2: Professor Yaffe is also an MD. Thus, to prove it to us and also demonstrate the effects of EDTA ... entire lecture in 10-250. So basically, this class is designed to teach us

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  recitation) "Apparently she hates it too. We'll miss you!" "This is just ... to procreate, because what else is there to do besides eat?" "...also ... second day of recitation) "It's possible that the thing you want to call

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  is my goal to beat it. Recently, though, I’ve gotten into watching ... ; Back on topic, what does it mean to crash Tetris? Tetris is marketed as ... , to be honest. Because it is a game that is defined by taking risks. And

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  Berkeley: The number one thing is to be yourself. Take it seriously, but not ... did not give it any though. Realize that the ECs are there to find out ... impression on someone, it is unlikely you would immediately launch into a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  there) I think it's safe to say that there is a lot of stuff that goes on ... rank it up there with the Black-Scholes model. (don't know what that is ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  patents. The press release is very short and I recommend reading it to ... nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... , but it's too late to ask my past self now. Is boba a juice?, If I ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  1885 to 1895. Technology (as it was often called at the time), didn ... was as feared then as it is today. There was a poem perfectly describing ... it be distinctly understood that we are not learning to be plumbers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  'll listen to me vent) and it’s not expected to be all by yourself, which is why it’s important to ask for help when you need it. Today is not the ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  learned how small of a world it really is, I also learned that to learn what ... go is. In the past two years, I have been to: the Netherlands, Belgium ... . In the end, it was really boiling down to MIT and Berkeley. So some

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  the essay before submitting it to make sure everything turned out the ... to these people is academic record especially in the case of ... students to excel in different areas. Pakistan is very very different from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006