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• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  Texas, where the concept of a fraternity (especially at a state school ... seemed as if their primary source of entertainment was joy at the expense ... . Nonetheless, I kept my worldview at the forefront of my actions and was

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  implementation up into a final product. Let’s look at the events of the past 4 ... to all get an understanding of the situation at hand. Once we had a ... for writing each of my stories. That’s the beauty of many classes at MIT

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  ! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries, I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging rite of passage

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  remain at the forefront of many fields and have contributed years of key ... Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  "US KIDS KNOW!" at the Arcade Fire, one of my favorite bands that never ... . My freshman year at MIT is over. I am an EMT, a driver of ambulances, a ... (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... increasingly became one of few Black/Puerto Rican students in those classes

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  field guide: - The Students at The Land of MIT have this crazy energy. It ... whispering, "We're going to be at the bottom of our math class!" (They're both ... 't know if that means anything. There is a lot in the way of support at MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  display this on one of the digital billboards at TD Garden. "More ... I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... . I thought it'd be fun to show some of these! Better Call Tim??? Date

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots.  But first, let

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... well at applying knowledge.  Effective use of knowledge means quickly ... It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8:00 PM Where: Lobdell Food Court, 2nd Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is ... tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... root of experiment. It is processed ignorance, carefully constructed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each ... .” – WGBH website Since one of the hosts of the show, Nate Ball, is an MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  November, one spurt of effort at a time. ... My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... I know that the probability of every incoming student at MIT having ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022