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• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  extracurriculars. He was a varsity cross-country and track runner for his high school ... , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9 ... thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... came across this carton a couple of times over the next few months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... sidewalks of South Bend are coated with a fine sheet of snow and ice

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... shape our world" and were associated with MIT. Gillette Co. & ... Sharp, MIT Professor (and a lot more!) since 1974 Email, invented by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  3, green, so each object is outlined in green, and there's a green box ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you ... docked with a fresh install so you'll have to play around with it. To the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... somehow a mere 48 hours away. There will be a plethora of events and food

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a ... catch to the list. We've acquired quite a few big names and cool units

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , he would call up Milton with an idea, and they would work on it for a ... the U.S. and some other places, of taking history as Facts with a ... scale for cooking and eating. Pelkins wondered if there was a way for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... and I :3 A koi pond in Yu Yuan. 豫园is a kind of marketplace, with a ... , and stayed there a good amount of time. For another, they are part of my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  clothes past warmer clothes. [carousel image1="74054" image2="74052" image3

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  you have a normal 3D printer, the X, Y, and Z axis movements of the ... toothpaste out of a toothpaste tube. First, you draw a circle with it, and then ... of work, and I’ve still only been back in the country for a week. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  rough shape from personally wrangling with it for a little while, it ... for five minutes and was able to learn a lot of non-obvious but ... the year for any semester in your road and a popup appears, where you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019