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• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... and games either. In writing classes, there are essays to write

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly planned to go to bed before midnight, as if MIT were some sort of fairy tale ... apparent reason, starting to go out for pizza with friends before remembering

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to spend money on food at least once a day. This certainly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... preference. So it partly referred to the school and partly referred to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... ) Enjoy your hometown before you leave 2) Say everything you wanted to say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo

  

  This is a follow up to my first Tetris on the Green Building blog ... .org/blogs/entry/the-holy-grail-of-hacks-returns/ Also, the code for Tetris is now open source for you to make your own ... back in the fall of my first year was intended to be a Mario movie watch

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 15, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  I've stopped listening to Jenny's cozy destress vibes playlist while ... ."]psychoanalyzing the bloggers[/annotation] long enough to tell you that Early Action ... GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  have they done, and what do they hope to do? So while I can point to ... , local and regional papers love to publish stories of locals doing well ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... the course and building numbers ✅ This one I was able to accomplish ... were a bit harder. The main campus buildings are easy to remember because

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  similar vein to my first post which used Onlooking as a springboard. added 4 movies to my letterboxd that i have been procrastinating on (two ... ], fnaf 2 because on friday i went to see it with friends, and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... manufacture mischief opportunities to spend time together. So many ways to title this blog, so many ways to sound truly, deeply weird. But the urge

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  off with the same things as Abby said: I've always wanted to make cool ... blogposts. But this semester I wanted to challenge myself creatively, hence ... , then, to combat this is to force myself to make videos. The assignments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... vocalist that sounded similar to Mitski. All the merchandise was expensive ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022