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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

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces

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

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  all to acquire your MIT wings. There's nothing wrong with taking a look ... being a resource for students, current and incoming, and I'm so excited to ... hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  look forward to reading about your passions, too. Finally, with a month ... perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... process that a chemist has given you already, look at it, and say "Hmm, HOW

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... , with a perfect 5.0 GPA. And, shortly after graduation, he flew across the ... . After unpacking my belongings, I grabbed a stack of books and went for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... athleticism, and a push for doing things your own way. However, it is also a place of toxic masculinity, ramped homophobia, and a too cool for school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at ... landmarks, not to mention a frequent target for hackers and tourists alike ... employees that serve as a valuable resource for a "zone" of 2-3 dorms

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

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

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  ... what about the academics?? I graduated with a 4.8 GPA (out of 5.0) - and ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... and brightest... and I'm a bit worried that I'm not as bright and shiny

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... suddenly complex and problematic. I could no longer walk into a room with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are ... what things are you gonna check out FROSH: well i was looking at the a ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... building in MIT and in Cambridge, with a spherical white weather machine ... interspersed with modern buildings like the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  on Hydrant. I've gotten a lot of thanks for maintaining Hydrant, and I ... to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  cover and a poem with some really cute embroidery.    I've been ... , etc. 3:00am (ish) curl up in a blanket and sleep ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  eight hours, and while that's not a great plan for every day, it can be ... -hour days? Cut yourself some slack and drop a class (three cheers for ... with awesome stuff and learning that is waiting for you no matter what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  . None of them filled the niche I was looking for, which was a whiteboard ... -end development is like painting. Often, you start with a wireframe, which looks a ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... 2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... , Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Peter Diamond among a few others. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023