Search

Search Results

• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... example, this bears no resemblance to snow: Gratuitous picture. Yes, this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido, dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• 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 ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014