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  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... acrylic paint and the bottom half is melted crayons. Grant F. ‘16 One of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  on top of the blocks. This was where our first wood cut inaccuracies ... own. As admissions officers, we talk about one way the residents of ... . The details of the project change each year, but it's always ambitious

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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- a prospective student asked one of the admissions counselors, who

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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about ... , very big, and will impact the trajectory of my life. For many of you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify ... it’s the most important one of my whole paragraph. Well, I’ll define it ... freshman year of college, where I experienced being out for the first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a ... finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... two palm-sized test pieces that overlapped to form the whole piece. We

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

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even ... casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the ... decided to marathon the Lord of the Rings films (extended edition, of course

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• 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.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like ... blowing out the candles. 2: I was mass 1 of a driven coupled harmonic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden ... . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  like. At least during the first semester. The Office of the First Year ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ! Luckily for me, my part of the presentation was first, so I got to get the ... Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  with several inches of water. The first and second floors suffered most ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015