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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make ... in nostalgia, to bask in the carefree memories, to avoid facing the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... you to get to the food in time. When you reach the student center ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  thing to do, or it gets really cold out, as it does in Boston. Then what ... trade in one set of rules to follow, you get another one in return. So ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for ... 's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him ... body will get old eventually. Our sister’s in Chicago working as a

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... that all the things left behind in this room won't get passed down to ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh ... participated in several traditions that allowed us to meet all the other members

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... Alexandre Dumas -- are on my bookshelf in Cambridge, daring me to take them ... thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a

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

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular ... dormitories, but in isolated houses, gives less opportunity to cultivate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  this summer, I decided to get involved in helping produce the next ... - features. Keep in mind that this guide is just an introduction; I chose to ... Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021