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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense that pretty much anyone who’s been a student here in the last 100 years ... does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger. Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  passed away in the line of duty. A friend of mine, who is also a friend of ... violence tend to follow in a vicious cycle that is so so hard to break ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... that's okay, really. Because the bruise on my arm is a great conversation

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and ... shift in tone, this "code switching" as you will be told, as a regional

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  this year, a lot of the normal fanfare is pretty much nonexistent. I feel ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• 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

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... . This time, my iPod is charged and my boarding pass is secured in my ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Wednesday, I got a cortisone shot in my knee from an orthopedist who is also ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering ... how an MIT education is a valuable investment. Despite the awkward ... . There were a lot of things that also highlighted how much has changed

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an ... paper. Gabrielle Union’s is a lot more educative in the feminine side of ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014