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• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could write only in words besides the words that most people in this place use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

  . When decisions are released, access decisions.mit.edu and login using the ... ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit the verify page and enter your username and password. The verify page is available

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  Sheng Ler Mei. The show is targeted towards college students, and ... ...etc. etc.). Back in May, they invited MIT to appear on the show, and they invited three MIT alums to be the panelists - Berta (Matt's friend, from '00

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... D programs as well as the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  The school year has begun again. I’m glad to report that some things never change: aside from all the frosh complaining about [annotation note="yeah the number system sucks"]why building 26 is bunched between 12 and 36

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy and the painful awareness that you are almost certainly less happy than you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  class and study it. This week, we focused on the importance of names and the power of them, having to write a rap about our chosen rap names ... ?si=2eec3094e95a4346[/embed] I really leaned into Lauryn Hill's The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... curated Spotify playlists. I was, however, a bit hesitant about the ... -generated playlists are starting to freak me out[/caption] there also was the issue of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the ... , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing a Q&A with the team captain Audrey Chen! All photos by Audrey

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what the bloggers did during their IAP (aka Independent Activities Period ... which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  As the November 1 Early Action deadline approaches, we have been ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas, not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

    Allan: These are the little notebooks that literally organize our entire lives (at least during the semester). Lots of people use ... year with a cute new cover! This year, mine (the one on the right), had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  , where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... somewhere like the NRAO. Alternatively, you could switch out of professional ... research, and want to be part of the astronomy research community. What is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  appreciation for the chocolate chip cookie (which we both think is TOTALLY ... to speed (not literally, Mom - I promise) over to the nearest Au Bon ... . :( We even asked the guy at the counter if there were any secretly stashed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  If you’ve ever seen Glee, you know that Breadsticks is the token restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  understatements. Hopefully the weather would be nice this coming weekend - these ... to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you have the huge, official guide to CPW events, but don't you want some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a ... thinking about the results of the tests; I was just concerned with relaxing for the weekend before diving back into the school routine. Fortunately

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009