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• 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 ... transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word here or there, some of it was scripted and some of it was just saying

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

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of ... frustrating at times since no matter how hard the team fought for us, it seemed ... My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... East Campus but realized it wasn’t you” nearly every other week.   Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  especially how it would affect my experience after MIT but going back to read ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break, but it is slightly different. It's the Independent Activity Period. I ... offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ...  - Pokerbots Hordes of students fanatically devote their relaxing, month-long

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom ... fucked up. If your subconscious doesn’t keep you down, you’ll wish it did

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  walks on stage. For some reason it becomes immediately obvious just how ... unit would measure. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but it was ... Wait, have you heard? I mean, it's only been published all over the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... .01 midterm. It did not make the test easier, sadly. d. 18.02 has been food-less so far. It’s okay, because after class, I can walk right across the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... it is.) More than just being around here though, he has served on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... 're more of a sorority though * * * ME: how's it going FROSH: ME: FROSH ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... Software Construction. It's a lot harder than the name makes it sound"]6 ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a ... name were a unit of measure, what would it measure?" Over my four years

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular 'Subtle Asian Traits' page that has been making its way around the Facebook

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  thought about how much fun it would be to go to college together. This is ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... often receive applications where its obvious a student has only applied to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'll see how it goes.   The effort split at this point. One group of ... 'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  workload, and how it's a little on the crazy side. Yes. I am a double ... First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was ... amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005