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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... have become a big believer in visuals. Look at this, and ask yourself ... student looked at the coins in alarm. I continued my little improv act

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... lying at you, and no - there is no conspiracy either). Therefore, you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... wrote with, and pointed it at the boat. the chopstick and the pen were ... at the water, look at other people's hair." wind direction was so vital

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and excruciating at worst. It is possible, of course, that this pain was inevitable ... . There would still be friends hanging around campus, at least for a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  MIT has been different. Malingap is, when my first night at MIT, an ... . We hadn’t talked at all before that; all he knew was that I was a ... different. This is waking up at eleven in the morning, and already feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  ” applications that could often be appealing at first glance, but ultimately turn ... is numbers, or at least that is what people think. There are actually

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no ... forward again to see that you didn't. Laugh at how silly it all was. Wonder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... . They are about the many worlds which at once overlap with and stand apart ... ’t stop - I spent a long time lying awake at night thinking about many of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... , someone took notice of Milk and stared at his expiration date—October 20

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people ... counselor took a look at my list and, with a dismissive tone, said some spiel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  Charles River at sunset this past summer. Another sunset over the Charles ... on the right. Boston and the Charles River at night.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... . Without a doubt, 6.2600 is the most magical and exciting class I’ve taken at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ? I suck at actual art. You know, the kind with shading, swoopy stuff ... work hard enough at it. I love crafts and making things. See MIT Mech ... a pretty serious South Park bender at the time and the art in South

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020