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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to my phone…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I’m taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’s short film “Powers of Ten” which features weekly lectures⁠01 Last week we…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:  …

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so here’s another guest post from my friend, jacky. he cooks. he’s really good at cooking. consider…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental. For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your applications to MIT, or off at…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in fact, been many posts about Splash before. Even Petey himself, the man, the legend, has taught for…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood, applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you thought the process of applying…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there’s this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing,…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can tell…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read about it. If you’re an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won’t apply to you just…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across the terrain,⁠158 Terrain being a word which here means: the view outside my window. like a deer across…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration. This confused young freshman me, so slightly less young senior me will try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the highway.⁠200 Or freeway or expressway or interstate or autobahn or whatever regional term you use for a major…

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It’s been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn’t; two years and a week from…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that gets me every single…

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019