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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  rectilnear grid is thanks to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. One quirk of the ... that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out, my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  well… comfortable. Everyone talks about how this is the point of our ... outside of your comfort zone is hard. Especially if you’re the kind of ... filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level ... institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  stumbled out of this place having found just that. (The following is a non ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  MISTI, is BEFORE THE END OF FALL SEMESTER. Before the end of fall semester ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  working harder for the sake of it seemed stupid (and I still agree it is ... electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• 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 ... but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.” Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism If we are only the sum of our actions, that might

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ...  Massachusetts Avenue is on west campus, everything to the east of Ames Street is on east ... , which is 1, the first floor. A floor number of 0 is the basement. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  propelled by a sort of fanaticism much in the way that marathon runners are ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... female, incidentally, and through some quirk of the fashion industry have

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  entire list of faculty members added to the display is included at the end ... : The Dean's Office is postponing the installation of a planned new ... all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  is not an individual or collective failure of the blogs or the bloggers ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... .’2020 pointed out in her presentation of the Bezel, “The meme is the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash ... not only your experiment, but also the lives of millions of bacteria

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning ... ’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... Gesthemane until the tomb is sealed by Joseph of Arimathea. He wheezes ... is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the line is his writing!  My name is Zack and this year, I was one of ... accurately is relatively challenging, however. One of the other project leads ... specifically buy longer pieces. The side length of each rectangular fort unit is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024