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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

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

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Bulgaria. Then he moved to Persia to do construction work for the Russian ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two

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

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know ... what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013