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• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  for the ESP website, 17 years later? Partly because of how expensive it ... to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of ... student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against ... hazardous chemicals, and beautifying MIT just as fast as they possibly could

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... of person who might love it. Life moves fast here: there are many more opportunities—for fun, for work, or both—than you have time for, even if you don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that ... , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... recently though, Dave was asking about possible storage solutions for his son

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  websites I remember frequenting, searching through posts for any glimpse into ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  limits here. For example Massachusetts has some pretty lame rules about ... engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... Macgregor Convenience for my morning Froot Loops and 20 oz. Mountain Dew. The ... building 56 Athena cluster to check email and print readings for classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  website. I am incredibly proud of Raymond and have been so excited for this ... access the movement by indexing the table. For instance, a knight sitting ... we run out of time. Online Play, Website, and Deployment Now for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  notorious for having a fast reproduction rate, spreading disease, being hard ... other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  campus for their first year. But, maybe you're thinking about it anyway, or just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... lecture. It is noon. Danny B.D. ‘15 You ask for a studfinder. I give you a power drill.   You ask for a studfinder, but it turns out I don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014