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Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson published a book named “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses,… Read More

When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays, I answered (in 250 words or… Read More

Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT was. Conversations with current students led me to believe that MIT’s hardness ranged from “quite” to “extraordinarily”; some even described it as “pretty damn hard”. However, these conversations always lacked the one thing my inner… Read More

Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we’ve been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments from people who were not admitted on Pi Days past sharing their… Read More

I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y’know, being an MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid… Read More

Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 yo-yos. Mills can cut in 3 directions, (X, Y, Z), which makes them useful for cutting shapes into metal. Read More

I’m taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to schedule around; it’s 1-3 every Tuesday/Thursday and spring-only. I’m glad I committed to taking it since it’s just as great as I… Read More