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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  support staff, were funded in part by IBM, How is timeshare computing ... infrastructure in their own homes. That's how Google serves it's hundreds of ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in

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

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... preferred, and a lot faster than mailed updates. Should I send in a whole ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  every year. Unfortunately, we’re very limited to how many students we can ... in your first year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer ... of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (i
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want ... accomplish this year: Cherish my close friendships. I entered MIT in September ... graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... ). If you have any ideas on how I can make this letter to President Obama ... graduate from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and, frankly, I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  It's ironic that I post this entry now - Matt just posted an entry about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life-changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I ... , we went on the Green Line (I know I said Orange in the video... it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  Saturday) in teams of four. It's a good deal: five evenings a week, I have a ... at the next table chimes in with "it's pretty amazing how many people ... . Elizabeth plays the violin in MITSO (the Symphony Orchestra), and would like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... easier. (I still sometimes convert radian angles given in terms of [latex ... then can be expressed in terms of tau: [latex]e^{i\tau} = 1[/latex

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  appreciated. In the next week or so, I’ll be starting my job as a residential ... combination of R,L, and C circuits possible. I am in the process of learning La ... the program starts so I can write out lecture notes in the fancy fashion

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some ... them in peer-reviewed and other publications, * understand how these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  algebra class was very rigorous, and in an ideal world, I would take it ... sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  hub of Maine's South Coast region. I was in Maine for three days, so I ... didn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things, because I was ... minutes. But I never believed in linear time anyway. Since my life is a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the ... . ;-) * * * I was expecting a lull in my workload after CPW, but it hasn't exactly

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  stuff. And it truly hit me how much I've grown and done in these three ... school, how being abandoned my friends was the worst pain I've ever felt in ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  diligence Look how far you’ve fallen You, a victim of time and circumstance I ... doing with your life how dare i whine that i am hosed when I came this far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023