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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 ... the few women in the field. At a vendor meeting where engineers were ... as they can because they don't believe in themselves enough or they don

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

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... her caseload and no one specializing in college applications, I was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic ... last two weeks I was in Seattle, the whole city was covered by a pungent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  (in my case, neuroscience). I clearly remember [annotation note ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an ... felt like i could touch the clouds...[/caption] In June, Denisse

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  in the sciences at the same rate as the boys? Have to ask. While I can ... to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from ... expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  in an amazing urban environment (aka Cambridge/Boston) where there ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  the Coca-Cola Scholars weekend in Atlanta (I hope that MIT '10s who are ... With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this entry for: Asking any last minute CPW questions you have (you can also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  you can’t tell where it starts and where it ends, and, besides, I ... note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  scientific ingenuity or whatever; you can't pulverize a chunk of snow in your ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of ... of Random Hall, I can list everything I own that interacts with photons

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  Orientation has begun. Convocation starts in less than an hour, where ... your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... them. I can't encourage you enough to find programs, positions, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... further.  Many many years later, I understand [annotation note="in case it ... , I did it partially for the bit where two other performers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  Engineers]. I loved throwing tea parties in my fraternity, where we would all ... in Chamber Music Society where I play in a string quartet, and I also ... : Founder MIT life outside Tea with Teachers: I graduate in 2017 with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group ... in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight ... one class. Otherwise I’d throw in 6.002/6.007, 6.152, 6.828, and 6 ... (a skill which i foolishly thought I possessed in great abundance prior

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... , where Crucial Admissions Business is voted upon. I also learned a bit more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... headed off to Urgent Care, where - at this point, I was pretty woozy, but I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow ... participating in a pre-orientation program. I did the Freshman Leadership Program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007