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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into. I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  for the first time, and filling out that neat little form listing all of my classes for the coming semester. I remember that first day of ... . I remember getting my first taste of both definitions of IHTFP. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of ... relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... skimpily dressed people; if you know of others, do share Let's take this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening envelopes seem more fun. We are now receiving a deluge of mail each day, buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the end of daylight savings time. There's nothing like enjoying the only 25 hour day of the year by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... harder for air. It's the first time I've been that scared for one of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  So summer kind of comes to an end today. Orientation starts next week ... absolute blast this summer. So here goes my attempt at one of those guides ... off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment ... advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor ... series of dings whenever they open, but, like the distinct colors of their ... as can be, and as the farthest elevator from the entrance of Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... presentation slides. I’m so proud of my teammates and grateful for their kindness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch, unaltered by three years of transcontinental distance. It was my first time really hanging out with them in about three years: my family moved out of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed received all of this shiny new stuff in various classes today! ... okay, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... best a collection of observations. [caption id="attachment_96309" align

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

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... other thing.” Of course, this was not a real conversation with a person at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023