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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... few leftover undergrad requirements. I still plan to graduate with my ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these ... this semester to convince myself that quantum physics is real. 6.2410 is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed by dismay to many people. I tell them "Yeah I feel like it's been such ... time like this? I was only really able to process everything and anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead, I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  answers to more questions... ------------------------------------- Andrew ... 's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to ... statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

   real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for another two hours. once i finally mustered up the willpower to get up, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to ... [annotation note="According to Wikipedia, 21 people were killed and 150 people ... , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well ... [annotation note="MIT’s main entrance to the academic part of campus"]Lobby 7 ... to them before, but sometimes I’ll see someone else talking, and they

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it switched to just cloudy. I gave up hope. I resigned myself to an incredibly banal Wednesday—except extra sad because I’d have to wake up at 8:00 am

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ), and Borderline (murals) are easy ways to meet other people interested in making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the ... might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  'm hunched over my computer trying to finish my work as I mumble, sounding half-dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join [annotation note="an annual hackathon hosted at mit where you try to code a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... promys, this math summer camp i went to in high school. it reminds me of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be ... , so the costs are different. If I were to ask someone out now, maybe it is true that I'm exposing myself to much less risk these days. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed of raccoons called MIT students.  As fallen leaves start to blanket

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn down, and that we still exist! I first moved to WILG after I took a gap year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022