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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• 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 "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... tallest building in Cambridge, at 20 stories tall). The challenge: how many

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  love how prompt 16 directs the student to engage in meaningful self ... to share how their goals intersect with MIT in the longer-term, past ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  ME: let me take you to shallow goodale ME: the best salon in boston ... * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In ... said to have graduated magna cum laude from MIT. In an MIT Viewbook ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man

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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020