Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... to all of our students (regardless of how he might believe they ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to ... , for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  us do basic unit conversions (i.e. minutes to hours) to find how long ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... more for having gone through this journey and brought myself to this ... with and still acknowledge how important they are to me. I don’t feel

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• 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.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  total approximately equal to 2^11.514. Just for clarity, these cookies ... to bake desserts for birthdays and other special days! The cookies were ... on competing next year for sure. To start, competitors had to define a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a ... manifesting for you all"](and also a huge congrats to those of you who have

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  you could at MIT, to the dumbest class there was for the most ... except for the number keys, which only let me use 5 and 6. So I had to do ... Music class to prepare for retaking .301 next fall. I was extremely

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not ... world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years ... , okay...not all of us, myself included, actually know how to log off and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this ... to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011