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  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 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 ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time. You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to ... wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... , how subject evaluations should work in the pandemic, the mission of the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... .) Things are going well in the lab, although I'm breeding a lot of mice right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... that I am in your debt. I desperately needed a slice of home, of people ... transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... off the age of milk in my fridge (though I am in my second decade, I am ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing ... strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something. ... It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015