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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• 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.

  

  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 excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  just go to the MIT home page, click on academics, and then read through ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  during the long days and weeks, and the end of a round of committee ... of my colleagues had battled the weather and tough commutes to get to ... nearly all of the admissions officers and have gone through multiple rounds

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the ... '09 took the picture above for me. The first picture in this post and ... : William Yee We heard speeches by the Governor of Massachusetts and MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  over-21 student blogger, and 3) some of us just aren't the classic frat ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of ... trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at ... , I sank into the oblivion of free T-shirts and sweet sleep, awakening

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district ... , adore eating and drinking in the Chinatown indoors. There is an array of ... giant dishes, enough to share among the merry group of four. And to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow ... includes some of the glass lab shots!   Annie and Ayomide in the glass ... ’s office in MIT Admissions, and of course, outside all over the campus

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• 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 ... days of my junior year studying for and taking exams. By the time I had ... lots of shared meals, lots of time spent together in the main lounge, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... founding members of the MIT chapter and were technically all the same class ... 'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  demonstrated academic preparedness - as the majority of MIT applicants can and do ... its whole. And to the extent that people think tools like Admission ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about ... insightful; it taught me a lot about the other members of my class and made me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... lines of "What is the difference between Chemistry and Chemical ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  and capacitor form a resonant circuit. If the frequency of the square ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007