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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... , if at all. I was lucky if I knew half the words in the title. Sophomore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  succeed in high school, and depart for universities around the country and ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  good-looking restaurants offering Asian foods in the area, with ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... books was like eating REALLY GOOD CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM, in that you skim off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... calendar. I like checking off tasks in my bullet journal. I like my string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... dancing along my back in its high heels, stabbing my skin with its piercing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ...  by Peter R. Cromwell (published in 1997 by Cambridge University Press in New ... entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... -verbal. Cat 1 will roll around in pollen if left outside, creating an allergen flurry for Humans 4 and 5 in the house unless we have taken antihistamines

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  theory”-esque challenges run by anonymous gamemasters and $749 in prizes ... "]he didn’t believe me[/annotation] and then found my number in his contacts. I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today ... the various opportunities and supports MIT has to offer. And there

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• 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…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• 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…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... on a farm/retreat in Santa Cruz, and backpacking around Europe. Part

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  , and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have ... 't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019