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• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So ... ’t accept my friend’s 5-dollar bill. A normal person probably would have given up there, but since I am a solidly abnormal person, I dragged my friend

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I haven't blogged since JULY. I know, I'm a ... blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... a system where majors have names, like "history," "psychology

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... 've had a lot of experiences with fabrication. For those of you unfamiliar

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... 's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  met, but I hadn’t realized how important this was to hear from a mentor ... lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of ... to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... priority became preparing for interviews. The symposium cast a shadow from ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  , perseveration comes in a few different forms, from discussing math in various ... intent. From my experience, this is unfortunately a line that is often ... Song: Down to Earth from Wall-E. “I found myself pleasantly surprised

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two ... . Hunt evolved from a chess game in 1981. It happens over Martin Luther ... increases from 93 to about 150. There’s a special headquarters within the dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  from a place that invented the electronic bidet. I deflated slightly ... walk with me was so unexpected I almost passed out from surprise (and a ... a generally useless, chronological order. When you ask for a map

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  more like a toy plane to me, but there's a reason I stayed away from ... . Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  recommendations, perhaps from a current boss or colleague, as well as transcripts from your former school. Hyo wrote: I have a question about sending the ... the "Are you graduating from secondary school early or without a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  read a backlog of blog content anyway. From January to March, MIT ... if on the day I got rejected from Stanford a student wrote to me saying ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email ... place over our student holiday, from Saturday, October 12th to Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored ... . Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can report

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from ... I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer-Prize novel with a few keystrokes. As somebody who has spent many years

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  direction (up/down/left/right). players choose from a variety of songs; when a ... there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y'know, being an ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  , and we went from level 1 to 4, and i had a lot of fun playing my half ... performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023