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• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Restaurant & Bakery in Miami. After Miami, it was off to Florida's Gulf Coast, where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... alert. After opening the email, what I began to read about seemed like a ... million to the alliance. It was really cool to see our research getting

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... most likely, you are absolutely qualified to be here. Can I look at your ... with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow at any rate. EA admits: after today's build, you'll be able to upload ... vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... -term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school or fellowships, so let me bring you up to speed: Astronomy Graduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... have time to pursue other things as well as research? 3) "Do you know if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

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

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... -analysis - what is important to you?: You may have done one before, or avoided it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like ... studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in 1949 to get his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rennselaer Polytechnic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... ) Conference. Since MIT is hosting the conference, MIT-EMS needed to provide

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... one simply cannot afford such luxury. this semester, I have gotten to ... losing funny points in front of Jonathan, the constant struggle of man to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024