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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear. One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... , painted by Rachel B. ‘09. If you haven’t seen Star Trek, I think you should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... . Or so I thought. Here's the progression of my todo list leading

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... floor is "better" than another - as they're all so different - I feel ... even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend, Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Jessie L. '07 I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog by ... Barkowitz Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years by Cristen C. '10 what i talk about when i talk about running by Chris S. '11

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... ."]where you want to live.[/annotation] This year, I'm serving as one of the two ... help organize and put on all these events. I'm also newly a

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

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... Destiny kitchens, my room, Cory’s room, and Random Hall desk, I downloaded and parsed all the emails that had been sent to my MIT email address. I

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

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

  

  opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently. Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all. There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  . Anyway, I noticed this a few months ago, made a Twitter thread about some correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my first time commissioning art from people, and I had the following

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire around MIT, but nevertheless I stand by [annotation note="cj: it seems that

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you ... ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , a backstory— CJ: So some way or another I read about Kevin L. ‘19 ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan: Unfortunately, CJ underestimated my completionist tendencies. I’d seen a version

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020