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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... department didn't include neuroscience until 1986. I met a faculty member who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... remove the heart of this man, and replace it with a piece of wood, that was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to ... collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... ) or the suitcase record player that daniel bought at a [annotation note

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  into a couple paragraphs and punchy phrases. This fictional super-eloquent me would end with the blog version of a mic drop, and then peace out from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  a bonus related article. Enjoy! Fannin finds more than academics at ... .By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek The movie "21," which is based on a true story, follows a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students and one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... this is what worked best for me. It's typically better of a supplemental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin. Thanks, generative AI![/caption] Thankfully, we do not need a pumpkin

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... setting up a stall about a women’s biker club. Security folk were roping off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great ... -smelling room is either: a room lacking any perceptible scent, or a room having that has just a slight fragrance. Avoiding bad smells is pretty

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  'working' on a manicured persona (i.e. learn sorority chants/dances, gossip and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to join a sorority/fraternity)"]something else,[/annotation] work week at t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  halfway through term, and it feels like I just got here a week or two ago ... , week, month, whatever, is over. I have a strange feeling my entire four years here will feel like that, a mere blip on the radar. And while there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East ... ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . CourseRoad is a wonderful tool because it lets you toy with alternate

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  design a control system for a YF03 robot at Kawasaki Heavy Industries ... Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech ... work. I have continued in the energy sector as a MITEI and NSF doctoral

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  stressed-out over the SATs, ACTs, SAT IIs and EIEIO (a test only given by Professor O. McDonald), but you deserve a break today. Listen closely: drop ... applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  know, it's a bold blog structural experiment, but just have some faith in ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to ... countless times, I feel in a unique position to evaluate a movie about an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is ... of fencing practice, I would stumble out of the Z-Center with a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my ... the classes I took the previous three semesters, complete with a color ... overwhelming number of requirements/GIRs that are on there. Now if we take a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019