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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  ME: open 24/7 ME: for all your dyeing needs ME: find us on yelp ME ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into your den FROSH: to cry about your future ME: ME: ME: ME: so hey do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... . Perfectionism + the urge to get everything done right on the first try. I first ...  is going on with me, but I've very recently started to implement forgiveness

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on ... was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• 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.

  

  on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my ... focus on myself. When I look the next word I need to type. When I care ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  . Finally, I'd like to credit my friend Lucas Ospina '26 on the card as he ... class and present your work to thousands of people. Artist: Anika H. '26 ... game theory class I took on listener. I especially made sure to add a

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring electronics on board.  So here's the boathouse from another angle: (6

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... ) expressly forbid taking pictures. So, I decided to take pictures of part of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take ... , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... things. Thanks to everyone who supported me on this incredible journey ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  1880s. WXGS welcomes you wholly as you are and encourages you to be your ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024