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• 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…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... 't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  house's communal tea drawer. When I arrived in the Front Room to find a ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• 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…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes ... pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  . Now back to finding out that I would be a blogger. The realization hit ... wanted to talk about was finding a community where I was surrounded by ... welcoming and supportive of wherever a person finds themselves to be standing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  called Find the Missing Card, where we got people to play a game called ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  's always exciting to find that… …but now that it’s been a few years, I also ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  friend, to hating this fucking place and still somehow finding a kind of ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... to heart, it's some of the best advice concerning MIT you'll find

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of their requirements done. I thought that most people would want to take a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  have to find a spring, creek, or river to work with. As you can see from ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... a success, as the main issue we were trying to solve involved clean

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  doc with some details that I gave to artists. This turned out to be a ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... at a desk, contemplating a complex syntax tree. To her left and right

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020