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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  ’d be great as Riri, and were even more encouraged when she was eager to ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us ... realistic. I was constantly impressed by everyone’s close attention to detail

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  would be leading the class. We had to go from Building 5 all the way to ... ] the weekend before Thanksgiving. To me, the easiest way to explain ... (which, by the way, is very good). Demystifying Cryptography, a class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an ... -East-Campus-all-the-time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the ... would be shifted to the West Campus. The space thus vacated could be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... with the GIRs. You should be paying enough attention to them that you ... semester. The big requirements you should be paying attention to early on are

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

  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  going to be different than the myriad of other competing essays? Too ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I ... Troubadour" by Tom Chapin  Which brings me back to that Thursday afternoon ... bit more of this fresh air, and called my parents to say I'd be walking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . The response was also way better than I expected it to be, and that was ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  could move. We had to be out by Sunday. There were people who helped move ... help with moving, we had to be ready with our things in the lounge by 9 ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we'll meet up again in whichever city we happen to be in at the same time and ... knowing when "one day" will be. I don't want to say goodbye, unwilling to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be ... least I noticed it today) I'm probably going to be more hesistant about ... Cream to This (Death by Exercise) || VEDA #19 – focus groups, dancing, AXO

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  [annotation note="Defined by being able to elicit the strongest preference under ... with the “big lighter” and the sushi knife). Looks pro but to be honest ... . You don’t even have to physically be there (during the cooking process

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

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... enough" is easy. The challenge is to admit that the way you study doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  this: the best way I know to honor her is to be a strong and good and ... , the blogs were not nearly the beast you see them to be now. I was ... appreciated the most about being a blogger was the ability to be open about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... like I do when I'm snowboarding. You might not be as quick at learning J ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't have time to interview more people (that could be an entire thesis ... through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to

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

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

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  was set to be constructed by 2001, which we know today as Simmons. This ... prefrosh would be introduced to "typical Boston weather, and not be fooled by ... three days to one, out of concern for frosh being "worn out by the time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021