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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania ... , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... maps in a specific order to give us clues. He did this so many times ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  . They want to take a photo in The Alchemist. There’s an endless line of parents and tourists waiting to take photos in The Alchemist. A convoy of ... coming out. They flutter to the floor in a heap. The Milk arrives on

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

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

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... -raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for ... polycarbonate roof to keep the worst of the snow and ice off the platform. In a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  insurance. Then, turn in said worksheet to GECD.  Send in a copy of ... left: embrace your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to step away from all ... appreciate my time at a new school, in a new country. I wanted to appreciate

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in ... . You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... players chose to place a large portion of their points in one or two ... is to be a free rider and not put in anything—bar the punishment, of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to ... impossible to manage with so many people, like in a dorm or living group that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  emotions, and all emotions, are a part of myself. I’ve started to find a bit ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic ... all. And I was fortunate enough to find a therapist who worked out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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 ... electricity, no motors. It's engineered to simply "fall" down a ramp in a ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  dressed in robes that resemble Roman attire to give a scholarly look, and ... study mechanical engineering in MIT, like the willpower required to take a ... . Often times, we find ourselves holed up in labs or libraries, trying to

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

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... in a minute. Good news- we've made it to the Turning Point of the ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to ... far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ... who have come to college in a long-distance relationship with someone

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... . Many students struggle to find time to sleep without playing a varsity

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

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... in to a someone else's phone. But because I have two ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017