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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... 697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  one heard or saw me get injured. I laid on the floor for a minute ... roommates, Dayna, wanted to put on a tea party for the house. I wasn ... . Seeing many of the same faces day after day gathered around for a shared

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... watched the moon begin its eclipse with a group of other residents. It was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from ... was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered ... - rooms, bathrooms, dorm lounges, or with a friend. The other places (which ... us know your favorite locales for a good semi-public cry. And post

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  (there’s a historical reason for this!), but I would never forego the ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... has been harvested; it will lay fallow for a while yet. For the past ... people for the last time, eaten a meal with them for the last time, played

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... thrive there.  I also needed a place I could afford. I took the SAT for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with ... a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And ... going, all the time. Most people in Boston would not initiate a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  scientists and share their stories with the public - FOR A LIVING! Sounds ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’ve frantically emailed the admissions office after realizing you made a horrible ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... the pandemic. So I was so hyped that a ten-day ran this year, and got as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  euphemism for a depressing lack of something. Ex. 1: I had the null set for ... Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

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

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

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... , I approached a friend. Ruben P. ’18 had stood up before the panel, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014