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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we ... i know what course 6 is ME: of course you do * * * ME: in french

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

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

  

  by their first four clans; in English, this would sound like “I am (Man ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times ... fun locked in with... As I noted in my first photoblog, PSets are not

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a

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

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

  

  guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... deportation and legal work permits, I still live in fear that my parents will be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... stats post, you are approaching MIT Admissions in the wrong way. When I ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I ... you passed. What I've noticed, both from the comments in the admissions ... more NOT going to lecture than I would have if I attended. I ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  statement on the role of diversity in MIT’s educational mission, I would like ... importance of diversity in STEM education and workforce development, I would ... attended college and taught me to count in Ladino — I still remember when I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now ... where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  . The assignment isn't about making something that would exist in reality ... have a lot of freedom in adapting it, so I started with a literal sheet ... happening in nature like that. This was a fun little exercise, though I hope

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... hardships. I felt like I had made a difference in many people's lives. So it ... initiative, they in turn asked their friends and first-year dorms. Then I asked

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023