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• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• 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 is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... America, which is a HASS history class, and there were many papers to write

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... heads off to bed, giving you a sympathetic "good night", until it's 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... just wanted to let you know that you can have a lot of fun and still get

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania ... , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... words, if you are lucky enough to have a singular greater vision or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... later today. 11:05-11:55 -- 21A.100 (intro to anthropology) lecture ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• 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 ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• 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 ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013