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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  really beautiful photographs by doc edgerton. i made a list of pieces i ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of ... has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

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

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  brainstorm some ideas. Empowered by a set of Tinker Toys, we created this very ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  probably be ruled by dolphins within a matter of weeks. Anyways, Nora was ... willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... Beaux-Arts style, characterized by large windows, large staircases, and ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  train rushing by and the clear view of all the standing passengers inside ... blow by a series of girders, a type of beam"]girder bridge ... yearly by members of his fraternity. As the closest bridge to MIT’s campus

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  responded by moving the corner of my mouth slightly towards my nose. That ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="Two -- Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Three Musketeers by ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers-by ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest

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

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... MIT, I've been the treasurer of Chinese Students Club, President of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018