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• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list ... &T there is a division called Client Support Services (CSS), and within CSS is there is a group called the Help Desk. If you've ever wondered what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... support staff, were funded in part by IBM, How is timeshare computing similar to cloud computing? Think of your laptop. How many hours a day do

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

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ="incidentally, admission is free for MIT students"]Museum of Fine Arts[/annotation]with a ... is much more wet, and walking through the snow is much worse than ... -needed peace of mind. This year, the snow has come at a much more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  May 6th. While transfer admission is a small program at MIT, we love ... waitlisted students and transfer applicants are feeling a little left out. So here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science ... -called "junior Nobel Prize" is a great thing, as it is a great celebration of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly ... we run to Jamaica Pond, which, as the route is also a team favorite, is ... everyone! My name is Alina. According to MIT, I’m a senior in Course 20

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  (the tagline is my favorite line from Wicked, hahaha - how "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... - Boston is getting a lot warmer recently! hehe). Well, this post is more of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  after we made these posters (you'd be surpised how handy a stack of ... Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  is currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard Medical School. She will be ... CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right ... ’s home by myself. A subway is a subway, the hardest part (for me) is simply ... country that you belong to, a particular home. Modern-day Shanghai is very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is ... Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this ... least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... Pika (69 Chestnut Street) I don't know how many of you had the luxury of ... I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  factors, one of which is how long selection takes. And as you know, we ... Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we ... we don't yet have a mail date set for this year. Just wanted to clarify

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  rumors- at MIT, everything is given a number. Classes, buildings, trees ... campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  about Mystery Hunt is how, in some senses, it is a microcosm of MIT ... also had to complete a series of unfortunate events that would show how ... Poker is a rarely practiced poker variant; it is not popular among humans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  the Boston side, across the Charles from MIT. This is where we spent our past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path ... , also from the bridge.   Below, somewhere on the left is Beacon Hill

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  difficult committee this year, which is always a mixed bag: it makes our ... A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  drivers only leave a stop if their bus is full, so it is an interesting ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007