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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   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

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  day. Rock. Also, note the appearance of George Mason University, Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... , nearly all of my friends had a duality of passions: Chemical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  actually end it! Think of it as the universe guiding you along the messy ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .177: Astrobiology, Origins and Early Evolution of Life (1) It's not offered this ... version of the class offered in the spring, 12.409! Return to Table of ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps ... . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024