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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... Peeling back the hood of the code scares me, because underneath it all it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... of the regality of the place). I had told my parents again and again ... nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  defined by Wikipedia: "the act of engaging in activities (such as ... entry of computer systems. Hacking is no less than the building of the ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... fans by the way), and the panther was lost in the process of moving in. MIT is having an open house of its own this weekend, which will be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... thoughts of grief. It was hard to not feel bittersweet about reaching the ... expected to feel some amount of relief with the ending of the school year. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... ’t say that participation will smooth the path for admission, but any of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... 's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... from the end of IAP:

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  ,"[/annotation] which is a direct rip-off of my pal Valerie's recent Zine projects. The leader of this icebreaker chooses an object or a character that the ... : "Don't look at any pictures of X or the actual, real-life X. Then, draw X

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  -clack of my fingers, as they smacked against the keys. The glare of the TV ... , staring at the white of the screen contrasted by the surrounding darkness of the room.  I hit submit. And I let out a sigh of relief. [annotation

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with ... the single most important part of your application.While you do not need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... movie adaptations of good books, clothes that are the wrong size, the ... ; hated the idea of being the only anthropology major in my year; pined

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007