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• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

   beforehand. If you haven’t visited MIT before, let me warn you (as I wish someone ... -to-be-college-graduates reading: everything will be fine, and you WILL find something!) It was an ... scholarship, getting to know them, and talking to them about college. The only

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... and music lovers. You can probably find a band of any genre, and a ... just for that experience. And if you get some great books and journals

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of ... hope you are fortunate enough to avoid. But I can’t change it now. When I ... ? Learn from my example. Sometimes you want to do too much. You can’t do it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  art. I've been told that you get better with practice, so I'm hoping ... to capitalize on that as much as I can. I would love to get good enough ... sure how yet. I guess I should probably get to a point where I feel

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  opened up, where you can sign up for a slot and you have the gym to ... little bubbles so I can talk about it more: I calculated my grade wrong ... scares me, frankly. I don't want to get too excited and think that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  meeting(s?) + UROP, soon. other thoughts last night i went to all-you-can ... semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14.33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  course, things change: the habits you live by can and will evolve with you ... activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... all the knots you can feel are out, it's fine. I occasionally will go ... where you aggressively try and dry all the parts of your head by rubbing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  , that is what you do. And now I can consume them without effort ... trucks, and the cars don't go too fast. You can't make out colors at night ... dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  this as an event during CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) where anyone can ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... part 2 of using my art powers for chaos. So how do you give someone the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for ... interesting facts about MIT back in the days. (In the style of Sam) DID YOU KNOW ... ready, but somehow, I can forgive myself. (I have a slight sweet tooth

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end ... that you might not under normal circumstances. This can be good if you ... . After all, there are only so many days I can get a less than optimal

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  , sorry, but I have one quick question..How do you get to be a blogger on ... bloggers, which you'll have to get to go through next year as well if you ... posted here.) I'm not exactly sure how you get to become a guest blogger

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  applications are the following: Have an interview (if you can) -- the admit rate ... 'm just getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age. Last night Adam and ... pretty sweet spaghetti wrestling... what, you don't know what I mean

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  groups, to find that place where you really do fit in. I'm getting excited ... our hosts will be before we get there? I know you're just matching us up ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  ’re just not getting it? And you feel bad, because they keep trying even though you can see that they’re frustrated? But despite trying your best ... also collecting stories that you can submit at [email protected]

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  't know the distribution, though you can get a sense of it from the survey ... experience at MIT, but it seems to me that you can find pretty much every type ... , political activists, lazy people, quiet people, whatever you can think of. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and ... . As always, I promise to let you know as soon as I can -- hopefully soon ... once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn technical information, but you also build up the skills needed to communicate

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024