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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  could actually make ~1.5" cuts in it, I broke a hacksaw. The old blade I ... . In summary, though, I would highly recommend taking a freshman seminar ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... , and Oniongate was a horrible incident that happened a few days ago. In ... Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us ... Furniture Hardware, in the fourth photo, has a vast display of doorknobs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  words, which I think means storm surge. It's in line with sigwa, a violent ... didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a ... , it would begin raining and pouring. But it never did. I didn't have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... should probably just stick to my stuff."... Eventually, a few months later ... Random Hall. I once asked a former resident of Random Hall why the milk had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... placement is in a charter school freshman Physics class. Every week, I don my ... , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of ... . They want to take a photo in The Alchemist. There’s an endless line of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... felt like I knew what I was walking into when I decided to go to a school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... homemade explosives / launchers / fire / etc. I'm sure there are a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form. At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  dropped Analysis after 3 all-nighters. In October, I sought a reasonable ... is what you love. I love when a solution pops up after hours of ... personally better than one in front of whom I spilled vanilla ice cream on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... writing this post. c. I was given a full-size Kit Kat just before the 8 ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... college was like 3000 km away from my hometown, it was so weird. I was in a ... life was good, I made many friends. Then in third year things got a bit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  boathouse to grab a sailboat (approximately a 5 minute walk in what felt like ... , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015