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• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come ... ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in ... ’s under renovation right now, so I (Kano) can only tell you what I recall

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... . Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... family in thirty years. And I’ll be damned if I ever forget it.   ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• 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?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , he vanished in an instant. It would be another year until I saw him again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... have UBER simplified some genetics concepts in this explanation. I want ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• 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