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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... awfully ominous edifice: But Back In The Day™, W91 served as a wind tunnel ... cables galore. Here's what we found: See those clear walls between us

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... 's Munchkin traveling. Something about clearing security (no small feat ... wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that ... property to put off writing about last semester even longer in favor of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the ... enjoy a birthday cake that his girlfriend made for him in the kitchen (he

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  Roast, somewhere down in Somerville, because even when it’s not in our ... home, whether it lives on one day in sub-communities in other dorms, or large houses full of displaced friends, or in the hearts of everyone who

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  experience in the "soft skills" department, but this post isn't about that. It ... existed in the first place. And now that I think about all the things I don ... 're having a conversation. What happens is that: I have this big picture in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  education and culture. Everything we do in our process is grounded by our goal ... more equitable and transparent than a test-optional policy. In the post below —  and in a separate conversation with MIT News today —  I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  a part for each voice group (which, in the case of the ohms, means soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, sometimes baritone, and bass in order of ... . usually in arranging you keep the solo line (ie. the lead singer) from the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... 've missed above all, however, is Chick Fil A. There are no Chick Fil A's in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... other places. We raised over $6600 in just two hours through this Date ... has pivotal experiences, those experiences that become skyscrapers in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is ... taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far enough to go to the good food places in NY :("]good food over Winter break

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  particularly hard pset, clear my to-do list for the first time in months, get ... make from this post to relief in Ukraine. If you'd like to join me, the ... going to the hospital in Mexico meant dying attached to a ventilator

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... . The beaver sits on a dam made from eight ivy leaves and a pinecone. In ... the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011