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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to ... eager to cover for. Also, the ability to do other work makes the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  lost my high Taiwanese standards for bubble tea =p) I hope to be making ... to worry about a "career" for another, oh, 4-6 years, haha. 57. See a ... for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... -off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... let awkwardness be a barrier to being aware or being informed, for our ... exclusive to the 2+ people involved. This is not, for the most part

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to ... to a highly technical school like MIT, yet for some reason they gave my ... grateful for the opportunities you’ve had to push yourself and find passions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that ... that would be better for me.] David says he was going to do some more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... right before they came out, checked, felt happy, went back to sleep for a ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  post. Additional thanks to my mother for more Chinese-language editing ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... blade needed to be for the balance point to be 2-3”.  However, my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work ... might be able to find funding for your travels. Take advantage of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... crowd. I know that this is difficult to reconcile for many students (and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012