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• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break ... . WHAT WAS I THINKING I CAN’T SKI RACE. I didn’t even really know anybody

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... bulletin board, of a garbage can, of a ceiling, of a vent, and of a door. I ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk ... musing about how I can improve the session I'm giving on the fly. Adittedly ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... MIT. In fact, I've set up a doodle. Don't worry about the numbers of the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... out." In my sleepy haze I grabbed the marker from him and went to the ... battles too, no matter how poor the odds seem. I slept like a rock for 2

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  tried to do the right thing. I can only say that there are [annotation ... Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting ... to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  becomes rich on Flickr**. **In all seriousness, I will give you full credit for your photos***. ***Let's see how many asterisked-footnotes I can ... Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  [annotation note='In that role, I saw how both our alumni and our applicants ... highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... backgrounds, and only if they can demonstrate that [annotation note='In other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can ... computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  my month old photos, so I can share them with you before they become ... duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... , which came all wrapped up in a bow. I took it apart and found each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... workspace (although I rarely use it as one – I avoid doing work in my room as ... when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... at 5 and starting at 7. Still, I can’t complain. I know how lucky we ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and ... university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I'm about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... as they can because they don't believe in themselves enough or they don't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

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

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  family history, about how she arrived back in Cambridge - "and when I got ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... slept in long underwear), tried to remember who and where I was, and stole

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... myself a maker until I've learned how to operate heavy machinery? I feel

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  . Stuff about how rules are worth making so you can bend/break them (both in ... 't. (Fun fact: I never learned how to whistle before coming to MIT ... final jam session. Q: How can one overcome the barrier to entry for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  can be part of an MIT community even after I graduate, regardless of how ... comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008