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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  collaborate, share, and process data without needing to set up heavy ... prices were super expensive. There were no "personal computers" and so in the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big

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

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  then it was call time for Mocha Show again. i knew what to expect this ... that range from funny and lighthearted to heavy and powerful. some ... love.    Monday: catch-up day…! due to my crazy dance schedule for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  -stop until we have enough to stock the sale? [caption id="attachment_92115 ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the production we were seeing involved a set weighing 45 tons... They had to build

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  current 4 million tons per year to 7 million tons of goods in 2015. Some environmental groups are trying to halt plans for more canal expansions because ... Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  one for this year because most of the companies I want to work for ... resigned to becoming a regular old software engineer for the first two years ... to the Media Lab for graduate school (masters/PhD program).  Pros

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be ... didn't know how to grapple with these facts, or with the heavy ... friendship to fall apart. If someone is giving you guff for making it into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  , and if you don’t understand how to use a tool, for instance, you can be ... to meet and have conversations with anyone from Sales, Marketing, and ... factory, makes for some really great mornings. I can’t begin to emphasize

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking ... ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  myself a maker until I've learned how to operate heavy machinery? I feel ... volunteers, have helped me out a ton when I was starting out, so I signed up to ... in, work on their thing, and have mentors/staff around to ask for help

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  it gets counterintuitive for you; to be effective you must say more by ... for departments and businesses to hire the student. For this reason ... community service per semester can make for a rough transition to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward ... les fraises et les pommes for what was to become the greatest fruit ... which course it corresponded. Fun for toute la famille! We planned to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  Princess’s birthday. For the next two weekends, we have trips to the ... for the summer. I have no idea what to expect, but have been told by ... (up in the Himalayas). I'll be there for a month, working to fight the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  five minutes for the form to load fully and then I hit submit and the ... piece of hardware to play nice with it for a class project...or the time I ... might think), I decided that it was time for us to part ways. And so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ”s Hospital Boston - Bake sale where all proceeds went to the Hospital ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each ... extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  friend Kristen made gingerbread houses for hall to decorate It's rainbow ... night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  , but that's a problem for Fall registration.    I think I want to ... 's been more challenging for me this year, though, is figuring out how to ... friends will end up scattering to different parts of the globe—for jobs

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  soup!), and ask for "kaetama." Once the waiter brings it to you, slide ... competition stems from the fact that "katsu"　(カツ） is a homophone for "to ... page, you have several rows for the same day on each page (to record what

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009