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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  with in class: ^a Form1+ we used in 2.008.  Yay MIT alum companies! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... areas she is not an expert in. She is an example of a life-long learner ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  . Apparently, my face was a sight to see. So yes I'm screaming and in much ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the 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 / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... ," awkward faces Things you won't see in this video: a cohesive narrative of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... . Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing ... in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... ! This is an American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana), a species of roach

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  black-and-white figure in a paper, and comprehensive scientific controls. Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that ... This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  each other. So like a background character in a movie poster, Harvard was ... herself. It came out beautifully. The next morning, we shoved it in a ... Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I ... defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I ... news is, like I said before, all this destruction is a good thing. Or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is ... see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• 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 ... window when you turn a corner sharply, and makes the seats in this ride

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

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ’t come back with a monologue about how admissions actually work at MIT, and how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the ... thought he’d like about MIT, like how we still offer a world-class education

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... so much work at once. The first comment I hear from my friends in my dorm or my brothers in my fraternity is that they haven’t seen me “in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015