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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... all of the freshmen here. Aw, why isn't anybody else excited? It's not

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  before… … OH! The frit should go on the FIRST layer of clear glass, not ... months before the sale. When I first learned about this fact, it raised ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... temporarily robbed of air. I watched the decisions page load before me, my heart ... first time, breathing in the awe of CPW. The sound of happy prefroshes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... Majorana fermions. That's exciting, since the colloquium a couple of weeks ... rewarding; you start attending, and understand literally 0.01% of the words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same ... outside of my year and department. And even through the whole mid ... I relied on aren't the same any more. The first couple weeks of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour ... short walk away from the Z Center is our first destination: Roberts Field ... that I mention that a lot of these facilities and fields are open to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  , is the most crazy, hectic part of the whole crazy, hectic process. From ... in their peformance space for the first time. This is the part of the ... incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... kind of embarrassed about showing it in front of people in the first ... the feeling of arriving at MIT for the first time, was incredibly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events--skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  . Big surprise! [edit] Just saw the first comment about this all sounding ... 's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... Mitra. So did Mike Short. Apparently, pretty much every one of the several ... much the whole campus. So, really, I think you could boil this whole

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... the biggest one on campus. With an ample amount of seating and multiple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... and less prepared for the actual first day of classes. This year, I was ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind of nice, really: mario kart in the lounge outside, teasing the hall ... from a television tuner). it costs about $20, and (with the help of some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  'm a little less excited about the art as a whole because every piece of ... 'm talking about the MIT 150 convocation! The subject of several recent entries ... hand: the circus! My way of saying that ceremonial robes look silly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Use your contacts The whole point of networking is to create a network ... Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... collect information on is some kind of networking. The only rule of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... ? Today was "Bring Your Audience to Work Day," definitely one of the more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  -year anniversary of going on leave (November 1!) A six-page autobiographical comic ... graveyard of unfinished blog posts to bring you… a highlight reel of the past ... stuck a lot of the art I’d picked up at conventions on the above my bed

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014