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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... hasn’t been seen around the lab for several days in a row, he’s probably ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• 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?

  

  up so much room for activities. You do not engage in activities. You ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your ... scolds you for closing it in a language you cannot identify. You can barely

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• 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 ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• 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

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... , 1994. It had already expired, and belonged in the trashcan, but somehow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• 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 ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• 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 ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were ... but perfectly viable.’ But in reality and for the existentialist… in ... for you to have happiness in yourself, unused but perfectly viable? You

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i ... and its tendrils for instilling this belief, i played a part in it too ... energy in a single month, and now i am paying for it. and all weekend long

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

  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... Sadoway a run for his money in terms of pure awesomeness -- began emerging ... .mit.edu portal) was the first publishing platform we used for the blogs. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  friends, read the books you read in high school, and make time for family ...  Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

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

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... soreness. There's not really a single good word for it in English, I think ... cakes for your friends' birthdays, playing tractor at three in the morning

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

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [annotation note="endearing term for alumni and garbage. but in this case i ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of ... “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021