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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... , from the bottom of my heart: good luck! Black Hole kitchen         

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... ;   During my first CPW, at the MIT Professor Talent Show, Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... before the big event. I made sure to bring my ticket with me: On my way ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... Programming) labs: I downloaded the message logs from six of my Facebook ... my six chats, there was a low of 26% of the class (6.034) and a high of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  you read my responses. Friends change, it’s true, though I resisted ... never forget the music I listened to on my UROP trip to Washington, DC. I ... , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  fuse, which is probably a metaphor for addressing my misconceptions about ... unwavering path toward it. When I look toward my future I see a flat ... from here. I can raise or raze my own mountains and plant my own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finish and post it. I also gave up scripting this one, so my initial

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I have been putting my radical thinking into practice by regularly ... admitted.  In my mind, it makes perfect sense.  It is, at least initially

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... . (Adam: "Tell them I got 21st [at Junior Olympics] my first year, and ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  preferences, my top choice is almost always the Z. I really like having a slew ... ’s so easy to just sit on my phone or get distracted; being around others ... . If the Z is closed, I’ll either ask one of my BC friends to tap me into

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  my phone exploding with notifications. Harvard’s decision was out ... sitting to my left, GRAs and some close friends scattered around. And so ... thinking about you:  Email from Biological Engineering Head: Email from my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  tears. Perhaps there was a time when my brain's toolbox included a robust ... coordinates of the salt are not within the domain of my arm. Spacetime ... , it appears that either I am spacelike separated from my cell phone or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  about their travels, I thought I would add a few comments from my trip ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... ) Les Cline and Larry Horowitz picked me up at my hotel in mid-town at 7

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh ... ="aligncenter" width="494"] 410 mem drive baby[/caption] Yeah, no. BC became my home as

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  submitted my Fall 2019 pre-registration on May 1 because I knew exactly what ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I had some second thoughts. I just resubmitted my pre-reg yesterday. Only

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had ... nothing else and with no one else! (plus being on my ring comm, in a way

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  do with my life? In these cases, agency may feel more like a curse than ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this ... that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021