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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... swallow any sort of intelligent thought that had survived the oxygen ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• 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 / About Decisions

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

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... option in my field), but the breadth of internship opportunities so far has

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... glimpse into the wonderful if sometimes confusing world of MITese! The ... ; appropriately named after the Greek goddess of wisdom. beaver (n.) - MIT's mascot

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... . However, our team of Mechanical Engineers and I had the opportunity to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015