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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years ... me. My summer adventures, the time I felt for once I was beginning to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  you. I know you also feel tired.  It’s difficult for me to know how I ... only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... trying to understand what the question was even asking! No matter how much MIT has humbled us and no matter how much we've come to terms with Not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one ... a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  battle with my four luggage bags. I still wonder how I managed to move all ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... building across, as though afraid to head there for a Biology Final it hadn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super ... ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... fall full of travel, I came back to MIT for a master's, but it didn't sit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to water will be safer for these children. People regularly die digging ... particularly counterintuitive for most Americans--how can digging into the ground ... (contractors and workers) who were familiar with how to construct this system

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for college. There are some socioeconomic factors to this, but I’ve come ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... do you mean you’re waiting for your refund to hit?  What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... baconstrips (and baconstrips and baconstrips) for you to shove down your food

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... care about the theory behind anything; they want to know how things work ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to ... ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024