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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  got to meet and work with a group of K-12 public-school teachers. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  /Astro department ever, and it was pretty darn cool. Fellow blogger Allan K. ‘17

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from a total of 984 students…

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

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  on physical models (one early build challenge cost $20k alone), but it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it”). Five are on…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• 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 protector, nerdy engineer — born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 – My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That makes me twenty-three whole years old. I am impossibly old. I am improbably old.…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• 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…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th, Burton-Conner’s internet went out. Somewhat analogous…

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

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• 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?

  

  expired. William L. ‘16 #fraybot Kristjan K. ‘14 You are talking to Anne ... as well. Christine K. ‘17 It’s 9pm on a Thursday night. The blues

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

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  : Song K. '25, major in Computer Science and Engineering. The Fool

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  sensory bias (a.k.a. the steak I prefer the most)."]“best”.[/annotation] In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know. I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  with a handful of them. My first semester back, Lydia K. organized a 6

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  manipulative because the Y-axis starts at 10K and not 0. Remember, I'm paid to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014