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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.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 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…

  

  beautifully how to analyze everything, but says that analysis is only a tool ... they died. He says that teachers must educate their students on how to ... inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... ..."]YOLO."[/annotation] The Poems That Taught Me How to Love about Pablo Neruda's poetry ... to hang in my room for the fall! how-to-dormspam. probably for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  didn't even know how to cross streets in the city, let alone how to tell if I was in mortal peril or not. I still don't really know how to tell ... -looking fiance. And at least I have learned how to cross busy streets: if the light

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... learned how to take the glass back off the end of the pipe when you're done ... how to actually blow glass. When we were making paperweights, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself ... have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... about how to address certain longstanding dynamics in the house that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  To set the mood: Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II  🎵 Take 1: Keep Calm ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  ’s true?” How mathematics should be taught to non-mathematicians. And this ... things other than music. This is how I listened to new bands before Spotify ... While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  out how we want to deal with all the things that come from communal ... past few months). i want to write more, and talk about my classes and how ... idea how to do, and living in an apartment, and and and. coming first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  learned how to set type, design a layout, and print our work on a handmade ... To set the mood: Armstrong Cabin - Justin Hurwitz, from the First Man ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  human to learn how to apply calculus to improve the world. Machines ... human cognition to pose questions about ethics—how things should be. We ... exploration of how humans think, and how we can apply truth and knowledge to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... those things - and a Truman Scholar as well! I got a chance to interview ... questions for Anjali, feel free to contact her at [email protected] - or just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  I have confession to make...it's somewhat embarrassing but I think it ... needed. When I came back to MIT to work (three years ago this week, I ... got around to it. Every time I made time to go something came up

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  the Cheesy Tots. I don't even want to know how many years of my life I scraped off with that one. I soon arrived at Harper's Ferry to a packed room ... , Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  Until Mystery Hunt 2006!!! Here's a little puzzle to get you ... cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either black or white (unbeknownst to them). Then, they will be asked in

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be afraid if you see something unfamiliar." Whatever happened to fair dealing ... 've said that I don't care, that I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  still profoundly conflicted about how to deal with the creative fan armed ... Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005