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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  of both the colorful earth and shiny blue Charles at the same time ... Autumn is arguably one of the best seasons there is, especially here ... colors of fall leaves mixed in with the unique and historic buildings

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... PA. The concert starts at 8pm tonight. Last year's Spring Concert

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

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... every professor at MIT who I thought was doing something that could be

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  , I could be a BME major at Johns Hopkins, sat in the nook of some cafe ... reality of situation, though, is that the road is not at all the same. I ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  job, of sorts. NASA internship So what did I actually do at this ... modeling but never had a good sense of how they really work. Working at GMAO ... out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . Strained arms with sacks of cheap fruit from the Haymarket. Stared plenty at ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of ... set of classes to concentrate in. :) Foreign Language classes at MIT ... . Props to people who know what the salt at the end of the video is actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the time; I stare despairingly at my ceiling for another 14.82% of the ... , Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... if any of these thoughts feel unorganized, my brain is unorganized

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  course), “This does not seem trivial at all and some of us did not have ... . Its residents barely bat an eyelash at the appearance of sentient ... achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  At this Friday's Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  of an actual call—and numerous parodies. Not all the songs at ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  a copy of our correspondence: Do you believe what students put on the internet can hurt them with college admissions? (Not necessarily at MIT but ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere ... failures (or perceived thereof) of public housing projects in the US. At the ... "]careening series of events[/annotation], I took an ill-advised courseload of 8

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note ... "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  film. It's especially obvious when you look at the demographics of the ... appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  loudly at the finish line.  No cowardly act of terror can break this spirit ... This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in. Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009