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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... , Burton-Conner's internet went out. Somewhat analogous to the power outage ... - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  is heading in. We're forced to explain our progress so far without ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal is to illustrate that ... label that refers to nine historically African American Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  scholar. I'm going to put [annotation note='CMS is Comparative Media Studies ... what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  classes to force some motivation and structure into the blur that is living ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... two hundred puzzles; the number's closer to 170. And our team doesn't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... sometimes referred to as boston. the city itself is often called boston proper

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  cool, and relatively well-taught. It really forced me to think hard and ... very interesting, and we were forced to read a ton of papers to get up to ... , and it forces you to reconsider how you view modern ML. Plus, the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  autumn half-marathon to force myself to keep training. I was so scared of ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  through the whole thing made me think, wow, I need to write about this. I ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... ] the weekend before Thanksgiving. To me, the easiest way to explain

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  creativity of applying centripetal force to poi and staff in time to music. Let ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  friends and I set up a website and sent an email to the student and alumni ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New York City. I always manage to overheat when I travel, so I'm only wearing

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  will give you some ideas. This blog I’m going to talk about what I did ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018