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• 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 / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright, Subpoenas, and You." I laughed. Of course they'd have to remind MIT students about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• 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 / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 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 / 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 / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 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 / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP!" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though ... !). Four winners were going to be picked overall, with one undergrad and one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students and real adults) can be hard to deal with, especially since it is tricky

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... what I remember (please note my memory is faulty and not subject to the ... ’s one thing to design a web app and another to build it, which can be very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a number related to your credit history, which is something that people like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was ... question. Panicking, I said the first number that came to mind. "Okay," she

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021