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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  description of the Diskworld from the first page of The Colour of Magic: In a ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

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

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (oh, by the way: the first few weeks of freshman classes involve A Lot of Vectors). After that, I will touch up the handle and clean the whole ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  ; at the time, it was basically a couple of text-only pages and not very ... front page of the New York Times -- above the fold, no less. (Here is the ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular 'Subtle Asian Traits' page that has been making its way around the Facebook. For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  whole picture. The way that students identify or categorize majors and ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... that horizontal lines in the first column represent people who always

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  explaining it.) Anyway, our first and biggest IFAF of the year was a weekend ... pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  was the first project where I built upon a decent amount of someone else ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I ... buildings whole. A lot of the damage of Yolanda wasn't because of extreme wind ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of McCormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  number patterns in your head? Cool!”). The whole concept of “people like me ... the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... makes you feel whole again; one where you are learning and growing all the ... possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006