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• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it ... interaction made your day? The trick to talking to people (at MIT and in real ... I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... finished the pieces in this woodshop. It's really the most beautiful loft I ... make sure everyone working in the shop knows what they're doing, uses the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• 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 / 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 / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Our mission is to enroll a talented and diverse community, in which students ... my job are pretty similar. I love stories, and I believe so much in the ... the ways in which the problems that we seek to solve are lived and

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• 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 / 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 / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more ... was admitted to MIT with much less than perfect SAT scores. They were in ... the class an important component in being academically able to succeed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... hypothesis as the best, and sometimes only, route to understanding most things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... . Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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