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• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  , the fifth floor of Building 9, the basement of Building 13, and so on. I ... accident and also ended up getting completely lost in the middle of Stata on ... scavenger hunt which were not on main campus. CJ: Yeah, but not any of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very ... music played by and for members of the science fiction fandom ... the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and who show up to conventions

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  . So I arrived on campus on Thursday, and I was actually delayed about 6 ... , TechCash is awesome, and we had $20.11 in honor of our 2011 class! (Later ... the mysterious mint square hack) And of course one could not to go CPW

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  -consecutive hours, 86 measures, five parts, thirty sheets of staff paper, and six ... students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... ; into this. And, of course, inserting a lot of gratuitous Terminator

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through ... spent most of finals week living on Pop-Tarts; if I couldn’t even feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only ... 't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... four hours from 8:00-12:00, the members of SaveTFP mixed, ladled, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends ... companies (The Nora and Underground Railway Theater), is located on Mass Ave ... vocally; and the particular details of MIT life she decided to include

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... cool-- that was a lot of math (and it is about to be quite a bit more in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came ... is performed by MITSO, and obtain an Erdos number of 2, all of this in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  corner of the couch and work on debugging code for my UROP. 6:15 p.m. We ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  mild sense of laughter in your chest, perform it, and move on. Noot ... reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy ... job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  somewhat eccentric poet, and an excerpt of his poem ‘Jerusalem’ focused on ... calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a ... was basic knowledge on differentiation and integration. I did some self

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... , getting 100% on most of my psets and not punting a single one, but because ... physically and mentally. I learned a lot of lessons that have forever changed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  Molecular and Cellular Biology" much more than I do actually doing any of ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... -debacle. This also made a fair amount of sense and isn't that random. I took AP

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  Pooch or McMutt? Feel free to answer any or all of these questions ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... about admissions and instead transform into a cozy place where we can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  make up organic feed and sparge 55 liters of water and turn on the ... Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of ... the room and attached another bag of morphine to the plastic tube which ... weeks staring at the ceiling, pondering life, pain, and the existence of a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007