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• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... none of your friends want to hang out with you and your significant other ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  universities are in the area. Take advantage of it. French House Sports I'm the ... moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  University of Washington. She's also penned books and technical articles on ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check

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

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  celebrate being two years into their undergraduate degree. The Class of 2022 ... highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial city of [annotation note="fun fact Alexander Hamilton founded Paterson

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  school. 23. I love taking pictures. 24. I enjoy girls who are fake. 25. I ... . 39. I'm afraid of dying. 40. I hate drama. 41. I am unconventionally ... . 47. I wish i could take control of my emotions. 48. I can't wait till

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... Gotera of the University of Northern Iowa, which was my guide to writing my ... Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that ... the weight of "not good enough." I've said this time and time again and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and ... First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020