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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  this intersection between Building 12, where MIT.nano is, and Building 16 ... differences.) Compasse is the font that MIT.nano uses for all of its signage: I think it works well. Most of Nano's signs use a [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It’s

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  . Each dorm gym has its own pros, cons, and personal quirks, and there’s ... reflect it. Students get complimentary access to campus gyms, so it’s easier ... ="attachment_103148" align="alignnone" width="1000"] pretty spacious :)[/caption] S: New

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols. Like you know something’s legitimately famous when it has it’s own wiki. But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... are many philosophical arguments about that, but let’s assume we’re not in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’m more outgoing and extra, while she’s more laidback and chill. I’m chaotic and memey, and she’s...a functioning adult, I guess?? I dance and she ... to MIT, I was afraid of being “Nisha’s little sister” forever; we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant ... could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It’s ... frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben ... studying for their bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD. The vast majority of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT’s ... decade since MIT entered my life. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  together. Alan: Kevin’s path was pretty complete, and we saw limited reason ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore ... Kevin’s plan, adding SL3, and talking about the different parts. There

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... lab under the cognitive science department, even though the project’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday ... ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  that become your closest friends. This is life- it’s messy, unexpected ... . Life isn’t always black or white. It’s some murky combination of many ... ’ve felt restless thinking about one question: “What’s next?” When you’re a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... single individual’s ability to succeed – and students are unable to believe ... blue coins, and knelt down next to the student. “Okay,” I said. “Let’s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people, that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• 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?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • 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

  

  , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... with windows and ice cream cones). People have mixed feelings about MIT’s ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges ... drawn weeping in the background. The Harvard mascot’s facial features bear

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023