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• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  its work or its academics, but for moments where I can sit in someone ... three dioramas every single ride. (There were some days where I'd refuse ... . Although I lived in Somerville in fall 2020, it barely felt like I was living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  millions of users. That's how people can start their own websites without ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's

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

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the ... - although they're mostly from the Registration Room, as that's where I was all

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  students via the DHL website (our shipping company), in essence publishing ... could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who did the right thing. I was incredibly impressed with your integrity

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... in the months to come! ___ That's it for now! I have a couple other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  . I still usually feel like I can follow along, at least, in lectures ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  in the BioInstrumentation lab, where I'm now the proud owner of a $45 ... BIG moment, where Neville comes in and saves the day. If this happens, I ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  're weird. And I can scan in writing assignments from fourth grade to prove ... over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in ... In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... moments where I realized that unlike some of my friends, I am still not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . ------------------------------------- Dheeraj wrote: "Can i take the SAT in jan 2006? Will its scores be ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see ... screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the ... Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011