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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  in nostalgia, to bask in the carefree memories, to avoid facing the ... This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges ... drawn weeping in the background. The Harvard mascot’s facial features bear ... some design inspiration from that. Since I didn’t want Harvard to be the

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... blossoms. The tablecloth is green, a bright spring green. People start to find things they have in common, to bond over the places they went and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the ... the MIT bubble. People flock to San Francisco or stay in Cambridge and ... projects with some of the most unlikely people. It's not MIT, but it is great

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  as much as those solos, as illustrated in the following table. Here, Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... in the right key? YES!). Every time I inhaled and raised my hand to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps ... is much more efficient than class AB, and the feedback control corrects

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  March in Washington D.C., I told the press that I wanted to go to MIT. And ... and accepted my spot in the class during the weekend. It was so much fun. But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the ... the whitest and most male departments in SHASS over other, more diverse ... communities they work with. This is not to say that the individuals recognized

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

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... the leaderboard earlier. This is right at the onset of MIT's attempt to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... does not make you anti-social. The tricky part is putting yourself in ... . But the exciting part is remembering that you have the power to choose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• 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 ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... about the job - and consider that it's possible to write a post in half an ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... sleep. On the floor. Because I had to go to German in 40 minutes, and ... . And the point is that I'm going to miss this, because problem set

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• 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 ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... here in the fall, don't freak out about freaking out. It's supposed to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010