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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do ... about using scrap materials to build a clubhouse, fix a fence, or repair ... starting a community garden in a town with one stoplight matter to admission

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... perfectly matches what you would predict. So, now you know how to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  videos gave me secondhand embarrassment in a matter of seconds; I had to go ... illegal drug use” in the dorm. We were given five extra days to revise our ... to go to a school where even in the summertime undergrads, grad

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit ... , please send a note or email directly to me.  While that may result in me

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  's happened to you in the last five-and-a-half weeks you'll recognise this as ... dedicate my life to something so important when i’m in a place where i can’t even find the energy to think that getting out of bed in the morning is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... next? Prefrosh applicant Emad Taliep '14 used this prompt to share with ... told him to bring his guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  prefrosh have a “need to find a best friend/roommate/friend group now or bust ... therefore interest in the topic so it felt like listening to a lecture in a ... feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  ’d actually want to use it in a fight without worrying that I’d lose my balance ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... the mat he held. In a round of sparring, I brought this tall dude to his

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you ... choose to either stay in the dorm you are temped in or readjust to a new

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  used a tiny canvas instead of the ones included in the grant. [caption ... is a painting I created to explore the use of color, light, and shadow ... long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  reading the comment I snarked at Adam. I'm enough of a computer snob to use ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... MIT! In the upcoming weeks, you'll soon find yourself in the true swing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  . In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with ... to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... , and I lived in Simmons, so I had to cross a tower and go down two floors ... : I need to stop throwing all my clothes in the dryer. When I saw that a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ”s. As first semester finals came to a close in late December, I saw no ... ; and then, I’d be late to my PE class because I’d grab a banana in the ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still ... ![/caption] Back when we all lived in East Campus, one of my housemates had a huuuuge

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your ... Haus in the housing lottery and then sent me an email asking to fix the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  opportunity to successfully complete my project. In addition to authoring a ... continuing work in research and achieving a doctorate in my field. I hope to ... applications both in medicine and in fundamental polymer chemistry. MISTI was a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  papers to come in. I leave to use the bathroom and for a blessed moment of ... : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well ... favorites from the past year: Impromptu Concerts There’s a piano sitting in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024