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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  nicknamed the "Brass Rat." It's not brass and it's not a rat, don't ask me ... a ring for 1000 people can't be easy, and no one is ever going to be ... . Also, below Building 10 is an ambigram. It's an awesome idea that didn't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  grades. This is understandable, since at the time I didn’t have a clue as ... volition to follow their dreams). It doesn’t take a straight A student to ... can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  a food coma [annotation note="my blueprint liveblog doesn't count; i ... came and went, we’re now in the middle of summer, and last night I couldn’t ... , so I definitely didn’t have enough time to write anything of substance

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  novelty check in a [annotation note="I won't say what the competition was, but it wasn't a game show"]competition.[/annotation] I had many hiking ... graduated online. I didn't watch, but my parents did. I started in the Aero

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  image or It's cool to care. Despite this, I think I still haven't done ... syllable. If there isn't a word that can tell them apart, are they different ... with air and the other doesn't. If there is a word that can tell them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jn1OeDlNpM[/embed] I really don't want to spoil anything about the ... open and happy about the "little kid shows" they watched and it wasn't ... of my middle school life. I can't really name the majority of the You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  enough though, I had to start thinking about internships, and I couldn’t ... usually enter by submitting a resume. I didn’t have a resume, and when I ... backburner. It wasn’t necessarily feeling like I couldn’t land an internship. A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... of my host in case she couldn't get in contact with me. If that isn't ... got to the point where CPW just wasn't as much fun as it would be with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  the grass for a dog sniff security check. I didn't consider my notebook ... of all 800+ audience members rising simultaneously. I hadn't even ... to have fewer panelists, and a longer discussion on each topic. Don't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... :17-12:17 Did You Say Disney!? You just can't wait to be King. No one will tell ... rediscover tales as old as time and songs as old as rhyme. We don't mind if you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  this, and I hadn't even declared a major yet.) Of course, medical issues ... from the surgery described below - the food isn’t bad, and the nurses ... yards from the Kendall Square T-stop on the Red Line. If you hop on the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  life. So, here it is: a random Monday. Monday's aren't my busiest day of ... , I don't expect enough people will be stalking this blog to interact ... to me in the comments if you do). BUT I guess the homework wasn't

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  the exclamation marks don't work, but just insert them wherever they ... guards typically bring. It also involves no drill mounting, and doesn't ... Veronica and I are above him and his antics, but he's just so tall that I can't

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  information the next time the question comes up, instead of "🤔 I don't remember ... ). At the beginning of the 20th century, Ford's famous Model T had not ... haven't taken a machine learning (ML) course before but I have some

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  , and if they weren't so sweet I would have been way more embarrassed by ... finished eating. I didn't think much of the half hour until a few weeks ... given me pause, but honestly I didn't even give it a second thought

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  . We made conversation, I can’t imagine what about, mainly to feel the ... flairs, slabs of pure color spread by a palette knife. I couldn’t see the ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  don’t know if you noticed, but Normal Ping Pong is really hard. Those ... had worked about ten hours less than I was planning. And I hadn’t even ... ASE. We cook up a plan. Mission Don't Fail 18.03: work all day

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as ... rings[/annotation] this year!!!!!!! It almost feels wrong if I didn't list ... semester. Thermodynamics isn't necessarily the field that I'm most interested

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  Hey! Here are some personal/academic updates. I haven't been blogging ... especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at least feedback loops that aren't artificial like exams. This makes your

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  rendition of this spiel to the incoming class of 2028… still can’t believe I ... senior majoring in courses 10 and 18. If you aren’t familiar with your ... , Theta Chi, during the pandemic, and now I was living in a house I hadn’t

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024