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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... 2011.   And change his life did. After five years of hacking ... working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  students smiling and laughing while sitting on a perfectly sunlit lawn under ... seminars (includes both advising and a weekly exploratory seminar) and had ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... , address, and other factors that affect admissions, like whether they ... , it is much worse than unhelpful. It, and tools like it, actively harm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally finish and post it. I also gave up scripting this one, so my initial monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and ... , and not fairness. Think about it. When is the last time you heard an ... fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... , and I personally try to link each entry to as many other entries as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  possibility. Opportunity. Another future opened itself to me, sparkly and ... into a restaurant and order without looking at menu prices. Behind us, a rinse of noise: groans and a burst of bright, asynchronous beeps. Somebody

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... 's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show ... Aero/Astro. And, while she didn't have big SAT scores, she was clearly a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned getting my ketchup taken away and them dragging me kicking and screaming ... chemistry and 7 meant biology; I didn't know where building 4 was and that you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... vast array of advanced (and expensive) machinery used to control and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... and co-chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have spoken to about this (both current students and friends who were rejected ... to my success. Comments like “don’t worry, you’ll still succeed” and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  know more about the bloggers, right?!?!) and I thought it would be cool ... results and their own identities, about the tests themselves, and even just ... of personality test. Humans are inherently adaptable and fluid, which

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018