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• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  , and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard ... main topic of the post: some observations about Slay the Spire, and how ... noticed it and complimented me for it. But I think most of the satisfaction

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  ? Students often get excited and fill out the form before their grades are released, which defeats at least half the purpose of the whole form. And ... concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You can ignore the text boxes and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  a 3-D printing company and gave a lecture on the uses and failures of ... most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... we divided into our cliques and groups. Many of us loved to hate the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  ballgown THE DAY OF THE BALL and getting away with it. Straight ahead, by ... the Whirlpool Galaxy, and a third one is of the sky when viewed in the ... characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and ... tickets. So the four of us stayed to the side, all very nervous and anxious

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that the class demanded a certain level of mathematical maturity and went ... . a bunch of my friends were in the class and collaborating with them

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  , chocolate spaghetti and BBQ olive oil. I also tried a ghost pepper, one of the ... -Cola's around the world. Lo and behold, my little country of Costa Rica was one of ... "Poisonouse Snakes & Insects in the Area" and nope'd out of there

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  to get a generous seven of the 25 questions wrong and still pass. With ... least five. And of course, I got all of those questions wrong. In the end ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of ... 's actually just one of the many, many completely amazing professors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  opposed the apointment of a chaplain, and, as you can imagine, a few ... you can have a "first post" war. And like I said, I do reply to all the ... checking the IAP events schedule pretty regularly, but unfortunately, most of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as ... ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... vector originating from each end of the first segment. Connecting these two ... point and you’ll get the same shape. During the process of drawing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  -term: it lies perfectly at the intersection of weather/climate and computer ... , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... ; though the earth science comes in through my research, and not through

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  first walked through the hallways of East Campus and stared at the murals ... , and that's one of the reasons I fell in love with MIT in the first place. ... deeper understanding of how the system works, and appreciate the freedom I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the ... advanced-standing exam and you pass out of it, it's better that you take the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  food first and started taking a salsa lesson in front of us. by the time ... single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... tickets during IAP, booked Airbnbs at the start of the semester, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... colleges recognize and accept this. If I'm admitted off of the waitlist, do I ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not ... incredible. They are some of the most talented, accomplished, interesting, and ... of the program, and I was accepted. When I applied, I didn’t mention it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009