2012–2016
1,402 posts
2016 224
December 2016
- A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days
- semester wrap-up
- Thanks Guys
- A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations
- RA deadline Q & A
- Tips for the EA deferred
- To Those with Dreams Deferred
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- Psetting en route to North Carolina
- Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET!
- to boldly go…
- MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1!
- Reaffirming our support for undocumented students
- Checking in with EA Applicants
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET
- The Trashion Show
- Watch Ceri on SciShow!
- Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post)
- Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them
November 2016
- CASE: Identity and Intersectionality
- Homestretch: The Final Weeks
- Kevin’s Room
- Biological Engineering at MIT
- making dumplings
- Dear High School Senior
- Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts
- Fears and Hopes
- Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman
- Finding Inspiration
- EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”)
- “Failing” at MIT
- A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick
October 2016
- EA Deadline Tomorrow
- wayfaring
- anatomy of a hell week
- A Night Off Campus
- QuestBridge 2016 FAQ
- Flow: Writing Like Yourself
- October potpourri
- Invitation to Cross-Register
- my day in pictures
- How to miss deadlines at MIT
- 2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails
- Why Is There No Water?
- Curbing Hunger at MIT
- Wide-Eyed
- weather and stuff
September 2016
- Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red
- Distance and Displacement
- Unremarkable things
- Faking It
- Being Sick at the Institute
- Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021!
- A typical first semester
- Dream Machine
- A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair
- Memory down résumé lane
- jr fall
- Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things
- On being at college
- All the Feels
- I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts
- Three Weeks
- a week of class notes
- You should consider studying economics if…
- The Class of 2020 Hacks Back
- Summer in San Francisco
- It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!!
- Goodnight Moon
- The REX That Was
August 2016
- Gendered language
- MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship
- MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students
- Dreams1
- Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos
- What is Simmons Hall Like?
- Philosophy Things
- Mexico things
- I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show
- summer’s end
July 2016
- summer scraps
- Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW
- Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions
- Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post)
- On Essay Writing
- Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT
- Growing Up
- Chris inspired me to do dumb things
- Sometimes, I am invisible
- My Least Responsible Purchase
- On Moving
- The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched
- This is where my decisions have taken me
- Alien in America
- what are we to do?
- These are the drones you’re looking for
- Life of a Black Person
- A Guide to Farmer’s Markets
- We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over
- Black Lives Matter
- The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student
- A Summer Reading List
- snapshot of the last two weeks
June 2016
- A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me
- Be a Blogger 2016!
- Breaking Normal
- Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp
- Turning the Tide
- What’s happening with Senior House
- A Home, not just a Haus
- PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open
- Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights
- Weekend Trip to Salem, MA
- Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016
- Chang Ning District, Shanghai
- “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!”
May 2016
- a semester
- 1st Year at MIT
- Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class!
- I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering.
- neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power
- PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend
- Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY
- deconstruction
- The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT
- Boston Book Festival
- Trip Report: ISEF 2016
- Short Thoughts
- Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions
- Less Than Perfect
- The Latest Innovation at MIT
- MIT’s Once-a-Century Party
- Winter/Summer/Where I’m From
- 2.007 Robot Competition 2016
- Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later
- Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post)
- MIT wins the Putnam
- Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom
- Ask A VC Boston 2016
- How to Make Friends
April 2016
- Although of course you end up becoming yourself
- Beacon St. and Marlborough St.
- Sleepless Nights
- A Fireside Chat with John Maeda
- happiness
- That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River
- 2600 Years of the University
- spring notes
- MIT And/As Marathon
- We Should Go To Canada
- Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
- An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)
- 10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful
- Grey and Other Colors
- Mini-Guide to CPW
- If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you?
- That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style!
- A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT
- Awesome People of 2016
- I Have Never Been to Beijing
March 2016
- Spring Break
- It’s Not Me, It’s You
- What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative
- Ive never been to beijing
- Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back
- 2020 Admitted Student Gatherings
- Having Survived Rejection (guest post)
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- It’s Pi Day, Pi Day
- Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
- IAP, CES, and other acronyms
- Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT
- what’s on my desk?
- An Embarrassing One Minute
- These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day)
- Soymilk
- 5 stories about MIT
- Acceptance
- One Day in the Life of Dora
February 2016
- The Poetics of Place
- Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle
- A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19)
- Hosed1
- Sophomore Fall Recap
- New Year, New Semester
- A Story About Muti
- scheduled time
- PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now
- Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow
- Week in the Life
- MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund
- IAP & Senior Spring
- The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16)
- The most beautiful class schedule
- How I Accidentally Double Majored
- I Moved Off Campus
- 3 weeks in northern Italy
- Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19)
January 2016
- How I Spent IAP
- StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs
- What an “OX” means on a transcript
- Allegiance
- readmission
- Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome)
- Beacon Hill in the Fall
- My “Normal” High School
- January Blues
- The Stars Look Very Different Today
- Your February Updates & Notes Form
- Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
- Winter from people who dont have winter
- A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics
- Snow1
- When I Grow Up
- Questions for 2016
- Colors1
- HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016
- Top Blog Posts of 2015
2015 255
December 2015
- Institute of Contemporary Art College Night
- RA deadline is approaching
- merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed
- The Music Scene
- Next Steps for EA Deferred
- Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester
- ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way)
- Recapping Trashion 2015
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- Dear Prospective 2020s
- Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day)
- Happy Holidays from MIT!
- Sleep is for the Strong
- Final Projects
- Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET
- 2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast
- Hospital State of Mind
- Tips and Tricks to MIT
- Toy Story Hack!
- Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18
- Life etc
- A Little INSPIRation
November 2015
- Psetting in Connecticut
- To go home or to stay home
- November
- A Walk down CourseRoad Lane
- MIT Mac4Change
- Blended Learning at MIT
- Second Semester Senior
- This Day, the Year I Applied
- When You Yourself Are Far Away
- I never want to finish my P.E. requirement
- Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
- It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are?
- What My College Essays Were [Not]
- Dear Applicants: The College Essay
- Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2
- I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting
- Steady-state Equilibrium
- Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes
- Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless
- Summary of the Semester
- Broken
- Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues
- Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team
- November 1st is my January 1st
- On Escaping
- Hogwarts Institute of Technology
October 2015
- An MIT Week
- MIT Inside vs. Outside
- My Monday (in Snaps)
- Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA)
- My Monday
- A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo
- QuestBridge 2015 FAQ
- Hack to the Future
- Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk
- Cooking for Myself
- Breathless
- Questions of Travel
- Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter
- Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone
- The 3 Schools I Attend
- When Friends Become Family
- What is weather?
- More on balance
- When September Ends
- MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s
- Self Help
- Super Blood Moon Eclipse
- My Last First Month
- Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture
- Tales of my first Career Fair
- Summer Syllabus in Retrospect
- Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab
September 2015
- Walking in Tim’s Shoes
- A Complementary Post
- (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students
- My favorite room on MIT’s campus
- The Perks of Being a Humanities Major
- How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall
- Lounges: An Interactive Experience
- A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing
- So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
- Embracing Change
- A suite surprise
- Felines of Fifth West
- Finding a Second Home
- A week in my new world
- Walk of the Strandbeest
- Hackapult Sieges The Dome
- Week 1
- Revolution
- The Last Five Days
- Meet the (New) Bloggers!
- What I’m Teaching This Fall
- Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide
- “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male”
- Test Taking at MIT
- This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday
August 2015
- REX at Simmons Hall 2015
- Every August
- Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad
- REX at Random Hall
- Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16
- So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass
- Some Advice
- Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources
- The Freshman Application Is Now Live
- dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know
- The ‘How to College’ Masterpost
- Best Free Software for College Students
- Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition
- Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event
- How to Choose a Laptop for College
- Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan
- Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition
- A (Belated) Letter to July
- What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT
- Although of course you end up becoming yourself
- Learn Coding Before School Starts
July 2015
- Writing is difficult
- Ode to Freshman Days
- Things I Learned From Freshman Year
- What I Did in High School
- Campus is quiet
- Pluto Flyby
- Be A Blogger 2015!
- Reuse Poetry
- moving out
- I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA
- All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action
June 2015
- The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack
- Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0
- Being an Intern
- Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My!
- Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random
- #scretious
- Tuesday on 16th Street
- The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT
- how to choose your major
- Finally Finished (for now)
- A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight
- ISEF 2015 Recap
May 2015
- Snot, Livers, and Fractals
- Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team
- How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report
- Escaping MIT
- Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today
- You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep
- Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15
- A Hard MIT Class
- EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany
- Brass Rat 2017
- Fight Fire With Fire
- Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today
- MIT Gothic
April 2015
- Don’t Screw Up Your Username
- In Memory of Sean Collier
- How to Fail: Part 2
- Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State
- Veda
- History of the Brass Rat
- Long Weekend
- How to Fail: Part 1
- Guest Post: The Power of Intuition
- Selam’s First CPW
- Is CPW a lie?
- Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT
- cpw at pika
- Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera
- What Is an MIT Community?
- Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market
- Caps Lock Pancakes
- Over Spring Break
- TBT: The Science of Chocolate
- Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings
- “Where art thou, O Higgs?”
- Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing
- an Easter vigil
- “So what are you majoring in?”
- I Wrote A Thing
- Sounding Stupid
- Behind The Drones
- Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs
March 2015
- señoritis
- So the rest of your decisions are coming in
- Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions
- Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice
- Español
- Is MIT too hard?
- Admitted Students Welcome Events
- Let’s All Work Together
- FAQ Wait list
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted!
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- A Penny for Your Thoughts
- Pi on Pie
- Pi Day Eve
- to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day
- Fomo
- I’m back! (And what I carry on it)
- senioritis
- good morning, MIT
- Leaving
- Keep your eyes to the skies this Pi Day
- #tbt: MIT Cribs
- On the DUSP
- Athack
- Science Out Loud!
- An Uncreative Post
February 2015
- Dormire et Laborare
- Why Do We Fall?
- Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes)
- The Process of Psetting
- Mostly Harmless
- Blizzard Barbecuing
- Happy Belated Hearts Day
- Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13
- Jon and me
- Unknowns
- Approaching Adulthood
- Underground
- Poker, Mountains, and Magic
- Pressing Pause
- A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating
- IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT
January 2015
- Home Sweet College
- Snowed In at the Fraternity
- Goodbye, for now
- IAP & Snowmageddon
- January Book List
- learn by doing
- Life, IHTFP, and Everything
- Do You Wanna Build A Snowman?
- Battle of the Boot
- Merit
- Your February Updates & Notes Form
- My IAP
- Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5
- I Scrapbook Sometimes
- IAP Jealousy
- How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide
- East Campus, A Home
- aeroastro privilege
- Winter Break and New Year Resolutions
- IAP of Coding
- My IAP
- It’s 2015!
2014 345
December 2014
- The Lessons I’ve Learned
- Next Steps For the Deferred
- Friday Night at Random
- RA deadline is approaching
- Skipping Class and Failing Bio
- HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations
- Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between
- A White Christmas
- Painting with the Colors of the Wind
- Adventure
- High School Summer Research Programs
- A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk
- On Comics and Role Models
- The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar
- I Was Deferred
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- The Pretender
- We’ve been there, too.
- Let’s Go Fly A Kite
- Underwater Dreams (from a distance)
- self-assessment, re: playwriting
- The Importance of Wasting Time
- Trashion 2014
- Waiting for Decision Day
- Coping With Anxiety
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET
- how i used a selfie stick for good
- What’s cool about Nick’s room
- Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT
- This Is How I Read
- Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head
- One new blog, three post-college thoughts
- In Case You Were Wondering…
November 2014
- #WeAreMIT
- The Tale of a Frosh
- Who needs Black Friday anyway?
- Thanksgiving and a Small Hack
- A Different Voice
- A UROP or Two
- Miscellany
- 10 reasons why MIT is beautiful
- Highlight Reel
- This is my spork.
- Bump
- My Day
- Fitting in at MIT as a Latino
- Toilet @ MIT
- Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd
- A Day in the Life
- Music, Photography, and Two.js
- I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why
- 1 day
- But What Are They Really Looking For?
- Underwater Dreams
- The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple
- A Midsemester Night’s Dream
- Chomsky and Infinities
- The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
- Home Away From Home
- Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS
- Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet
- Halloween Tag
- Trick or Treating
October 2014
- The Early Action deadline is almost here
- This Post Has a Happy Ending
- Grace Hopper
- Dining at MIT
- disinterprerto!
- My Talk @ Maker Faire
- Below 48, Part 2
- Enjoying the Little Things
- Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin
- My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more!
- Lost in the Pages of the Institute
- Family Weekend 2014
- A Weekend of Hacking
- QuestBridge 2014 FAQ
- The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!)
- Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor
- Sexy MIT Engineers
- For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot
- Below 48
- How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?
- i saw you
- Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore
- Talking to Strangers
- I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus
- MIT Mini Maker Faire
- My new job @ admissions
- So Chance Me Maybe?
- When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT
- Dear Applicant
- Fall Festival 2014
- Finding Time
- The Late-Night Juggler
- An Open Letter to MIT Applicants
- Set Theory and other Shenanigans
September 2014
- The Optimal Solution
- A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday
- Career Fair Round 2
- A Very Doodle Intro Post
- Staying Organized
- Here Comes the Sun @ MIT
- Another Cat Post
- The Halls are Alive
- I Am Excited
- Doodles: Career Fair Edition
- Year 2 at Hogwarts
- What If… I Met Randall Munroe?
- Career Fair Thoughts
- Doggy Birthday
- A Written Post
- Tetazoo Goes Camping
- Summer Recap—The Book Launch
- Wow
- Not Much Has Changed
- The Deadline
- Great Expectations
- EAPS Field Trip
- Boomeranging
- Good Morning, Sportsracers!
- MIT = Home
- Moving Out, Up, and In
- bloggers.addAll( newBloggers);
- California Love
- Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed”
- “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…”
- (My Third) First Day
- So You Want to Declare a Double Major?
- MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor
- What it’s like to work at NASA
- Pilot
August 2014
- Now and Then and Maybe Later
- Credit for Reddit
- Trendy Reif Strikes Again
- Roller Coasters and Dance Parties
- The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style)
- East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE
- MIT Application Now Available
- Don’t Forget These
- How to Get Home from the Airport for Free
- The Newest Member of Our Family
- What Are We Waiting For
- Where did my Summer Go?
- Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free
- The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- There and Back
- Bumps, slumps, trips, and …
- Flux and Flow
- Perspectives from Deutschland
- Leaving a Mark
- Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life
- Not Farewell After All
- Alum FAQs
- The Re-Froshening
- Do I have a story for you…
- Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch
- MIT: Round 2
- Life slows down a bit – if you let it
- ADMIT ME PLZ?
- Thank you for reading
- How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay
- Fake it ‘til you make it
- Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned
- I Remember…
- Cue the montage music
- Right back where we started from
- 50 Reflections
- In Transit: Summer Edition
- The Story Of @MITStudents
- Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy)
July 2014
- Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT
- Hey Erick, You Awake?
- Dear July
- What Essay Questions Should We Ask?
- Blogger Application 2014!
- An Admissions Excavation
- MIT Guests on The Colbert Report
- IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative
- Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14
- This Bathroom Ceiling
- I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram
- They Call Me Yankee
- Happy Birthday, ‘Murica!
- Summertime Happenings
- Roundup
- Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)
June 2014
- What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2
- Closer Calls
- Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15)
- What are French House residents doing this summer?
- College Application Anxiety
- A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest
- The Random Hall ‘13s
- Makers @ MIT
- Reverse Culture Shock
- Adventures on the Charles
- Hello, Seattle
- What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4
- My MIT Interview
- Attended the 148th Commencement
- I graduated
- Odd Jobs
- Commence the Commencing!
- Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation
- So @mitblogs_ebooks exists
- A Day at Stanford University
- The Room, A Short Story
May 2014
- Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops
- Thoughts from the Other Side
- Life After (and During) MIT
- The End of an Era
- A Chapter Closes
- The Epic Split Feat. Tim Beaver (Live Test 6.28)
- MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable
- Finals Week at MIT
- What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3
- Thinking Positive
- We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952
- A Vicious Cycle
- The First Ending
- Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today
- Advice for the Incoming Froshies
- MIT: The Sunsical
- Do You Want To Build a Robot?
- What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2
- Batman Picks a Username
- Study Break on the Roof!
- Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today
- Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2
- Happenings
- A Faculty Dinner
- Gettin’ Fancy
- What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1
- It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet?
- A Time to Enroll
- There’s No “I” in Team
April 2014
- Books write our life stories
- SpringFest 2014!
- Class of 2016 Ring Delivery!
- Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file?
- Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1
- An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains
- Adventure Time at MIT
- What if You Didn’t Like CPW?
- Ama
- Dudamel
- Blown Back to Oz
- Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14
- We Are All Slaves to the Wind
- CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus
- No Touching
- Not in Kansas Anymore
- Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW
- CPW at Random Hall!
- CPW Q&A
- Spot the Blogger
- CPW 2014…The Parent Edition
- Admitted Student Gathering
- Studying At Cambridge 101
- Wait List Confirmation Form
- How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break
- My Final Blogpost
- The Seven Supervisors
March 2014
- The Other Side
- Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12
- The First Time I Underpacked
- Out There
- “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…”
- Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area
- SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation!
- FAQ: Waitlist
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted!
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- My Two Cents
- Just Desserts
- Believe in your magic
- Why I Took A Gap Year
- 10 Lessons
- Selling Point
- Preparing for Pi Day
- Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of
- “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.”
- My First Week as an EMT
- DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries
- There Will Be Pi (Day)
- Latino Cultural Center
February 2014
- Astronomy in Paradise Lost
- A Hacking Story
- Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats
- My Desk and the Things That Live There
- January in the Studio
- The Punt Puzzle
- It’s been 3 weeks
- 2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost
- The Polar Vortex
- Dragons
- MIT: The Snowsical
- An Olympic Hack
- Ushering in a New Era
- Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT?
- Brass Rat 2016
- Moving Across The Pond
- About That Email
- Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km)
- Day 1: Quito Old Town
- Day 0: from DC to Quito
- The Abstract
- Important Information about your Financial Aid Application
- #funhogging
January 2014
- Day 1: Going North
- Different Perspectives
- Wholock
- Actividades Independientes
- O bu nkita n’ime ulo akukwo?
- 一緒に料理しましょう!
- —-.—… – . .-. -.—/ …. ..- -. -!
- 0110100001101001
- Une expérimentation de l’indépendance: partie la troisième
- ≠♥∠∠☻ ♥∀♥∝∴☻∧♥!
- An ode
- Est-ce que je suis prêt? Peut-être.
- Hola. No Hablo Español.
- )!< ?[v9[w!
- New york and me
- Uba Quubick Hubellubo
- Missing Documents Deadline
- An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.
- I walked on water*
- The Semester in Photos
- Go Read Some Science Fiction
- Poetry Prescriptions
- Your February Notes and Updates Form
- Sophomore Slump
- Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Going Home
- An Experiment in Independence
- Mormons and video gamers
- 2014 Resolutions
- It’s 2014!
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December 2013
- Happy Holidays
- ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas
- Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs
- “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered
- Physics professors have a charming sense of humour
- The Swim Test Saga
- Being Home and Answering Questions
- Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students
- YO!
- There are no imposters in the Class of 2018
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- TEDxCambridge!
- Waiting
- I’m laughing out loud
- 2.009 Final Presentation Recap
- Catalogue of Fridays
- Qa3
- Thoughts on Snow
- twerking, MIT style
- Unintentional Hiatuses
- Life Lessons From Pistol Class
- Christmas: The Playlist
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET
- In Prison
- 42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1)
- 42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)
- A Tale of Two Struggles
November 2013
- Ask Me Anything
- It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
- Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded.
- Feeling Good
- How to have dinner with your Professor
- Soldering Things
- A…an…uh…a cappella concert?
- Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats
- This Isn’t Goodbye
- Discovering Product Design through Photography
- Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft*
- Fashion Design at MIT
- Missing Documents Deadline
- Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want
- Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800
- Toons and Tasty Burgers
- E-mails in French House
- Slam Dunked
- A Battle Scene to Remember
- Stop and Smell the Seasons
- Becoming a Princess
- All Hallow’s Eve
October 2013
- My 21st Birthday
- Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week
- Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets
- Vertigo
- Time Flies
- QuestBridge 2013 FAQs
- Weekend Shenanigans
- Alpha Delta Phi
- Deadlines and Habits
- A Couple of Firsts
- Early Action Updates 2013
- MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition
- HackMIT: Coding over Cookies
- Science! at the BAH!Fest
- Life is like a Game
- An Alumni Barbecue
- I should’ve started this earlier
- MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES
- Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!)
- The First Day of Classes
- The Art and Craft of Taking Notes
- FAQ for Maker Portfolios
September 2013
- MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals)
- Leaving
- All The World’s A Stage
- A Study Break. Or two or three.
- Qa2
- Fanboying at the Career Fair
- Kindred Spirits
- Short Answers to Big Questions
- Two Truths and a Lie
- MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2
- The Boston Festival of Indie Games
- The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures
- Summertime Science
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Remembrance
- We have nice things on the walls
- Why Apply?
- MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1
- A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life
- What is an Incomplete Grade?
- More Milk Please
- The second-to-last first two days of class
- Finding Balance
- year 2 of the course 2
- The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future
- Live from Reg Day
- New Year’s Resolution
- Class of 2017 By The Numbers
- Four Weeks of Freedom
August 2013
- Laser Graffiti
- Your Questions
- DEALicious
- Thanks, man
- Taking Care of Yourself
- Open Sesame…Ring.
- REX at Random Hall
- Introducing… Maker Portfolios!
- Let There Be Prefrosh!
- Skies over MacGregor
- An End
- HT@MIT: Academic Resources
- Summer on the West Coast
- THE APPLICATION IS LIVE!
- 9 things I wish I had known before freshman year
- The Best of Times
- From One Cambridge To The Other
- Healthy Eating Craze
- A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings)
- My first music festival
- Our Essay Questions
July 2013
- Writing is useful for science.
- A Summer of Learning
- A Bit About Me
- Blogger Application 2013!
- Bedbugs (fiction)
- Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle
- Eastward ho!
- hello again
- HT@MIT: Foodie Edition
- Wooo Summer
- “There is No Place Like Home”
- Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park
- Unpacking Surprises
- A Postcard From The Green Building
- Disco balls in space
- Coworker Shenanigans
- Independence Day Fireworks in Boston
- “All Aboard the Rage Bus”
June 2013
- Tchau! Labs vai para a praia!
- All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
- Summer Decisions
- I’m sitting on a bus
- New York City
- How MIT students are trying to change education
- 4 Years
May 2013
- DNA and How to Extract It
- Movie Marathon, Pt. I
- Summer begins
- the journey to PLAYsentations
- Wait List Decisions 2013
- A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people
- Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit
- Night Vision
- Transfer Decisions to be Released Today
- HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam
- MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash!
- Right NOW
April 2013
- Random Ceiling Tiles
- Decision Day Eve
- Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis
- I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET
- Getting Back to Normal
- MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog)
- Thoughts. Future. Kindness
- Turning on the Light
- Tragedy for MIT and Boston
- What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew
- Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley
- On the other side of CPW
- Together.
- MIT’s Tribute to Boston
- Fantasy Feast
- retreating and proceeding
- CPW at Random Hall!
- CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!
- A Letter to CPW Prefrosh
- AHHH CPW!!
- Engineering
- Freshman FAQs
- Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol
- With Apologies to Dr. Seuss
- QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU!
March 2013
- Exploring Boston
- August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too?
- My First Astrophotography
- One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas
- The Craziest of Weeks
- Think About This
- Fancy Feast & Happy People
- Admitted Student Gatherings
- More info for Admitted Students
- FAQ: Waitlist
- Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.
- If you’re scared of decision day
- As we hurtle towards Pi Day…
- Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt
- BREAKING NEWS!
- Jellyfishing
- Consilience
- We Eat At Food Trucks
- The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes
- Everyone at MIT should take this class.
- We were worried
- Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?)
February 2013
- 2015 Brass Rat
- 24 Hours
- Quarrying Around
- This is it.
- A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3
- Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp
- Hitting Rewind on 2013
- Two Valentine’s Day Serenades
- A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2
- A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1
- New Semester
- One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life
- The past four weeks, in maps.
- The Great Snowball Fight of 2013
- Nemo Found
- Techfair
- The Story of the 5 Wits
January 2013
- How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely?
- Premed and Me (frankly speaking)
- The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself
- Bad Ideas Weekend
- My Friend the Parasitic Scientist
- Picking A Southwest Flight Seat
- Class Crossover
- Calm Down and Breathe
- Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report
- Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy
- Winter is coming.
- The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition
- Adulthood
- Final-ly!
- Falling in Love with a Language at MIT
- Mirrors
- What can you do with a bad grade in quantum?
- MIT Regular Action Deadline Update
- Check the Mail Pyramid!
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December 2012
- MIT Regular Action Deadline
- SO META
- For Applicants
- Holidays with the Huangs
- Applying Regular Action – Q&A
- The Ultimate Recognition
- Early Action this year
- For Newtown
- A Q&A for Deferred Students
- Open Thread: Admitted in EA!
- Open Thread: Deferred in EA
- Open Thread: Not Admitted in EA
- Exploring the Outdoors!
- are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]? here are some adorable dogs.
- On Tortillas and Community
- Fifty Shades of Break
- Stressful Times
- Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep
- Welcome back into my life, crutches
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST
- Q&A
- A Seemingly Stressful Survey
- This blog post is about you.
- Writing an essay using thumb tacks
November 2012
- stepping back
- Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP
- MIT campus lost power!
- Emergency Morale Booster Night!
- Engineering Poetry
- Inspired Brainstorming
- Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs
- In Transit
- My Class of 2014 track jacket
- Splash. Was. Awesome.
- Turkey Time
- Actually Doing Things
- Mistakes
- The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I
- EA, RA, and Transfer Updates
- SCIENCE!
- Every now and then, my mind = blown.
- The Infinite Corridor, set alight
- Tales From Turning Twenty
- Random Post While Reading Apps.
October 2012
- Quick EA Update
- Meltdown
- Halloweekend
- MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012!
- The little things
- MIT Gangnam Style
- Sleep is (not) for the weak
- My brother is cooler than me
- Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists
- A question for you…
- Roombaaaa
- Watch the MISTI film!
- Early Action Updates
- in the pursuit of knowledge
- College Interviews
- The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama
- A Typical Friday Night
- Seeing The Dalai Lama
- July and Unified
- Sophomore Satisfaction
- Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday
- The Unlikely Candidate
- Nerdin’ Out
- A Frosh No More
- Reflections from the “other side” of the desk
- Maybe it’s okay to be this way
- Not in my own words.
- Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize?
- Hack Punt Tool: The Musical
September 2012
- What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~?
- Cats
- Two opportunities for high school students
- Cynic
- Stealing from the Class of 2016
- A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays
- 1 of the 101
- Maker Faire 2012
- It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella
- Some Useful Things
- I’m sitting on my bed right now
- What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair?
- The Google RISE Global Summit
- A Tale of 8 Instagrams
- Real, live MIT students * IN HD*
- Together in Service
- Transfer App Is Live
- Your Freshman App Questions
- One of these labs is not like the other
- An Alternative Semester
- The Great Gatsby
- June and Flaky Biscuits
- The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars
- Electrophoresis Boogaloo
- Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle)
- A love letter to psets
- Better Late than Never
- Two Days in the Life
- The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes
- To the Class of 2016
- Hug Your History Teacher
- World Suicide Prevention Day
- The Results of My Summer
- In Which I Feel Old
- Junior Year: The First Week
- I came, I saw, I stirfried
- Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times
- The last few days of summer
- MyMIT is live
- The Hardest Thing Ever
- Life After: A Collage
- Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012
August 2012
- Sounds of Summer
- Fup
- You Got The Gig
- Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program
- (beginnings
- A FAPulous Start
- Random Hall REX!
- [Guest Blog] CourseRoad!
- 3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough
- Chem Lab Boot Camp!
- Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle
- Life Update
- Curiosity, Part 2
- An MIT Adventure
- Summer Magic
- Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on)
- Summer Adventures in MO
- Invasion of the Stikmen
- Be yourself or create yourself?
- Curiosity
- My advisor won $3 million
- Don’t worry, the king lives…
- See You Later
- Mussels and Brussels
- Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal
- Gtl
- Meet The (New) Bloggers!
- How to Make a Flashlight
July 2012
- How to jump out of an airplane and live
- Two Pulsar Discoveries
- How To Write A College Essay
- Total immersion
- danger!awesome
- Salut
- Walter Lewin ESG Lecture
- Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next
- Talk to Strangers
- Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston!
- Sunrise, Sunset
- Publishing abroad
- Life Coming Full Circle
- MIT-Now in Español!
- Two cakes and six cupcakes
- A Day in My Summer Life
- What Trains Make Me Think Of
- I’m sitting at work right now
- A Moment with A Minister
- Language (die Sprache)
- Get to know Tim the Beaver!
- The Public’s Biggest Fear
- Random Hall Rooms
- Blogger Application 2012!
- The end of a chapter
June 2012
- Up
- Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy
- Advice From The Elderly
- Introducing…Stan!
- 13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate
- Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal
- You’re Not That Old
- The Last All-Nighter
- From Markets to Math Class
- A Plot Twist
- Just Run With It
- Kick . . .
- The Wisdom of Khan
- Take Only Memories
- Graduation, Livestreamed
- The Remnants of Four Years
- Time Flies…
- Fortune Favors
- The story behind TIMtalks
- Three Guys, Six Degrees
May 2012
- The Best Advice I Ever Got
- Another Toy Story
- Breadsticks and Business
- rolltreppe
- Delivery!
- Tim Is So Beautiful
- Urinetown
- Quad Life
- Underneath All That Polish…
- Current State of Mind
- Bibliophiles assemble!
- Waitlist Decisions 2012
- Bridge Building: In Progress
- Comodidad y facultad
- MIT Imagination
April 2012
- Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!
- A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks
- Why I Chose MIT
- Pre-Med @ MIT
- Decisions, Decisions
- A Few Lessons from FLL
- 90-something days of summer (Part 1)
- A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW
- The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again
- 16 for the 16’s
- DDR Tetris
- Simulating Catastrophe
- 11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome
- Attention local high school students interested science and engineering!
- “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents
- Caine’s Arcade
- In which Elizabeth tries something new.
- Dyslexia at MIT
- The Minerva Delusion
- Telethon FAQs
- Transfer Decisions Released Today
- The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures)
- ¡Vámonos!
- It’s like I go to class or something.
- Analogies
- Spring Break
- Primer trimestre del primer año
March 2012
- 21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live”
- The Perfect Match?
- Kickstart My Art
- A New England Spring
- The Real Deal
- Holding out for a piece of Pi
- Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery.
- Why So Serious?
- Free Lunch
- A Field Trip
- Admitted Student Gatherings
- Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville
- Over is the Wait
- More for Admitted Students
- Waitlist FAQ
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- Important
- To whom much is given…
- Pi Day, Tau Time
- The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach
- Defying Gravity
- Discuss Disqus
- FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood
- Photodiary
- As We Approach Decision Day
- I have SMASHING news!
- Sigma ChIgloo
- Watching Birdwatchers
- What’s my age again?
- Whats there to do for fun around here
February 2012
- Weekend in Kendall Square
- Heck yeah, democracy.
- MIT is just another place
- Free-est post!
- Dinner With Goobers
- Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee.
- It’s like finding candy in your pocket…
- TERMinal Velocity
- Techfair!
- And the End Closes In
- Cancer
- High Class Brass
- The Making of a Mystery
- Ode to the Institute
- Travelogue: Part Une
- 16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping
- MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day
- Computers and their Programs
- Why I Love MIT
- Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin
- Pics or it didn’t happen?
- Filled With Cute Babies
- MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- New kid on the block
- IAP=Watermelon in January
- The Cloud
- Our new video
- The Way We Live
- For the love of 6.470, Montresor
- MIT Can Talk!
- Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1)
- TELETHONNNNN
- Are You Stressed?
- MIT Crew Florida Takeover
- The MIT Midyear Report
January 2012
- Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday
- Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field
- Things That Have Happened To Me Recently
- LeaderShape 2012
- Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts
- Grown Up
- Missing Documents Due Monday
- Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field
- Everyday I’m Trufflin’
- Let’s do a puzzle.
- Needles
- In the Darkness of the Night
- Bad Ideas
- MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing
- An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow
- Almost a Real Engineer
- Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers
- Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow
- 624 Hours: Columbia, MO
- Rebound Rumble!
- Regular Action Update
- Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field
- Why We Blacked Out The Blogs
- Grades in Context
- H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV
- IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl
- Starting 2012 on a volcanic island
- One Wheel To Rule Them All
- World of Wires
- The Trouble with External Validation
- One Thing I Love About MIT…
- Surviving MIT
- Missing documents!
- 21 Reasons to Join ESG
- Happy New Year!
- Terrascope