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  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

    Most of my entries center around things I've learned or ... through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... you. Different places suit different people (which is true not only of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny ... /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019