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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... 't forget the money factor! Will I / Can I make a difference? If you visited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  sitting around a table, roleplaying to a significant extent, and rolling a bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  , and Roger Barkan First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  ] stayed up for 7 hrs to make a cardboard cutout and hung it from my bed in ... This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  years later, about to become a senior this fall. Of course, one can argue ... now, [I mean, according to the student directory I'm already a fourth ... the realization that if I want hot cocoa/tea/coffee nights to be a thing

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... classes? Aren’t you guys a technical school?” The answer to this is a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to ... . Do you need a tissue to mop up the tears of joy you have shed from ... high school, I think YouTube had just started to become A Thing, so

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... , Matt '08, Brian '08, and a couple of people I can't make out in the dim ... and head-scratching, because we were able to put them to good use. Also

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... someone I know makes the weights a little more bearable. Artsy things How

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  . We begin by learning what makes a toy a toy, what makes the fun, how to ... enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  back to campus. It's a place which makes gelato but the "cherry on top ... and loss we would feel if there were to be a mass exodus from campus or ... 10 new cases a day. To me, COVID-19 still felt like a far-off threat

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make ... when people approached to a boy who agreed to (albeit reluctantly) give ... seven-year-olds to the addicting melodies of Lady Gaga, and initiating a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  !"]super[/annotation] [annotation note="Another grad student was working to make a more discreet and ... .  From this and measurements of the ROV, I was able to make a design for ... interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  , I got the even stronger itch to make a video. So, last night, I scrambled to film and edit a vlog for—I think—the first time since undergrad ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... instead of making them have to read the chicken scratch that is my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... Busy With Things But Not Really. which is kind of a bad place to be ... . i don't have a family to celebrate thanksgiving with, which i guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  extensive to fix in time. It didn't matter though. 2.007 was a trial by fire in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... had one desire: to make something that looked cool enough so that I didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are ... taken a circuitous path to MIT, I thought I might reach out and share my ... by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but ... ’d like to pretend that I was a hard working kid who studied a lot and did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009