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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... wear our Danger Third Rail (how 3E is affectionately referred to) t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• 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.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and ... Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• 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 ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a ... retire early."]yelling[/annotation] the entire time. A colleague recently

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... such an incredible collection. whatever you find is going to add a lot of ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sorry to inform you, we already are.” Everything I am doing is a dream ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... you don’t like free food, you’ll love it here, too – there is also a lot ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... mechanical engineering. I'd never taken a final before winter break or got out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... Shanghai dialect, “we are Shanghainese.” This is a very colloquial, well

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . The barista is a young woman wearing an apron, her long, blonde hair in ... , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure.” “I think MIT is the best at everything.” “It’s a fantastic place, it

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

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  their conference, NEWMAC! NEWMAC is a conference including Babson, Clark ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  expected from -- MIT students is a core feature of our educational mission ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... being sincere. “Being yourself” is not a trap, because it’s yourself who

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  layout is that the streets are 60ft wide (about a dozen running crosstown ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... the local sights. So here is a sample of my adventures with Flat Tim ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017