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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you ... internships. It's a toss-up.) And you make a good impression. And are course 2

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... even now, as a grown man, when I go home I'm liable to wake up buried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  end up, you will find the experience you are looking for if you seek it ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I ... hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of wind chill that eats Jack London novels for breakfast. 10:00 AM: Toast ... writing my undergraduate research (UROP) proposal*. It's like yoga for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  : Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don ... number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time ... %. For those of you who will be checking your decisions online shortly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  , you're currently doing regular action selection for domestic applicants. What's up with the international selection? We're still reviewing ... decisions will be released. Watch the blogs and MyMIT for more information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both will come this week. I know there are already many outlets for admitted ... too. I won't divide you up into groups; after all, we're all part of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  my neck for staring up the whole time, but I still managed to have fun ... I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  My friend Brian, Course VI '07, came up with this puzzle. I'll give you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... this world that you are meant to do. For those of you on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 3

  

  Prof. Laura Ceia-Minjares of the French Department. For lunch, we had some delicious Thai food. Yummy! After work, I met up with some old friends, including one who was in town because he's coaching a team for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  -famous Boston song I'm Shipping Up to Boston that I actually heard for the first ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after ... States during Fourth of July. (or if I was, I was in little-town Maine for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  question whether it makes up for the lack of opportunities before. I thought ... making up for it in any amount of time. You are allowed to exist, trying ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data ... that my internship is wrapping up tomorrow, I'm reflecting on what I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  breakfast/brunch (normally it ends up being brunch cause sleep is not for the ... and ready for my chemistry midterm this Wednesday. Other than classes being in full swing with psets and midterms starting up, I also started my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  easier and more fun for the kids to pick up computer skills. Perlman earned ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... "? Meet Dr. Radia Perlman '73, SM '76, PhD '88, Distinguished Engineer for

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

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  idea of writing up some sort of guide for future MISTI India students ... I finished up my initial stay in Mumbai towards late December, and ... real feel for academic culture in India. The freedom to pursue topics

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  thing for the idea that she and her team came up with. Since (a) both ... entry, for your reading pleasure :) ~*~ First up: DevLinks (You can ... , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  the prestigious Nobel Prizes, honoring individuals for achievements that ... Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... -Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  created for children. "A lot of the time kids only end up playing with the ... materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a ... can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007