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• 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
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... it. if i already know what i want, and believe in it hard enough, is ... until i think about whether i'm doing it. i'm reminded of this saying in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... the numbers around how money at MIT works can be found in the recently ... place running. I have, in the past, heard of MIT's administration

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... of (mostly) ugly clothing. I had a general color scheme in mind, and we ... shoot in the basement of East Campus. I was inspired by the different

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... this mean great things in Kevin Rustagi's future. I would endeavor to ... arcade project that my friends and I worked on in January. He gave me some

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  . Now onto some harder questions... “How hard is MIT?” When I asked this ... specific, I know). CJ has written extensively about these old catalogs in ... Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... alone in this pain, and that I really admire each and every one of them ... “how are you doing”s lacking response.   The shy, tanned girl

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... from MIT to work in Apple's iPhone Product Design team.  He spends most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... time, I can't even stress that enough), you can develop interests in ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... him I can hear him wailing with the most sad meows you can possibly

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I learn best. What I found after Interphase was that lectures alone didn't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... ’s so many weebs in this school…jkjk” but then I was like “... unless ...   dimension: time, in the form of video frames. You can do fancier things like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... ) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace ... negotiations during meetings, but I really feel like I'm in my element in it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if ... stood behind the girl in the sweatshirt. Michelle and I just stood there ... the energy drinks. As you can see, I'm slightly confused by the whole

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008