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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!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... see me in the background, sitting on the floor and guarding our stuff ... any real footage of me doing stuff--I’m behind the camera!)  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... verse often gives me encouragement, and I hope it gives encouragement to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... in theology might ask me about how astronomy influenced and affirmed my ... that kept me alive and sane again and again. And vowing to keep my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  trucks basically fed me for all of my freshman and most of my sophomore ... that class... 80. Check out a library book - are you kidding me?!?! A ... tried to rush me and I was like errrr WTF I'm a senior! 97. Go to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... eats it is sad"]my claim.[/annotation] Try convincing me otherwise, I pray that you do. A few key facts about me that may or may not provide

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  roommate left in the early morning, leaving me with all the rest of the room ... —this is what home meant for me, and now it is gone. Soon, it will be my ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... difficult to implement at first glance, but believe me, once you train ... *. If you have any questions about MIT, feel free to contact me at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  get me at Berkeley, and after going back in time and preventing the ... Megan '08 woke me up on the floor of her suite. She was all, "Sam, you ... beach, or he plays "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen and everyone knows all the

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

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  to everything that we are about. Let me go back to the concept of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

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

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... front of several failed laser cutting attempts that took me at least 6 ... (me, Sophia, Eric). We're preparing our presentation quite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• 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

  

  ?" Anyway, the Milk turns 21 today, which reminds me of another story: last

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

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  !), a CPW brochure from 2003 (which made me feel incredibly young because

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... me would never change. It is impossible to write a blog detailing why

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... . "Why call the ambulance? Just leave me alone!" the frail old man muttered ... narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  application process you'd like me to focus on in particular first, let me know ... with a class of 200 each. That worries me - I don't know what it'll be ... ; Jen '11 (who lives next door to me and bikes like fourteen miles a day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  example, I forget what the motivator was, but me and a few friends who all ... feel free to message [email protected] or reach me through dada

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  stop me? I didn't think so. I didn't know much, but I knew that I needed ... . More... human. It's wild to me that three years ago I was just starting

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023