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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  unfortunately didn’t help with most of these things (other than sourcing four very ... aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... munching on the starbursts I snatched from the dispenser, she had already cut

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  together. I helped build a robot. The competition's today, and we'll see how ... culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  graduated today, helped interview me for my current job. During CPW, late one ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model ... ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won ... industry experience (aka super resume-able). However, everything depends on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  clarity on an emotional level will also help a lot if you are in situations ... poster called "hookup culture" on entering college, and not all people find ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... 's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... needed any help on-site. Somewhere in the midst of all this, Alberto and I ... -written journal. When I was 16 years old, I wrote daily “diary” entries on my phone

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... campuses turned out better than expected: I was a bit fixated on MIT by this ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... three I didn't know, one never actually lived on floorpi. They transferred

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... writing flowery little paragraphs about them and the memories I’ve made on or crossing them, then assigning them a score based on nothing but my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... group, we pulled week-long mixing sessions where I rotated on 4-5 hours of ... somehow transmogrified into electronic PDF format. On the plus side, this

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... lane on the Freeway and couldn’t help but check. Almost crashed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018