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• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post ... Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... everything happened. Sophia will discuss this from a puzzle team perspective

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  “Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my ... oscilloscopes and stuff,” he said after reading a bit closer, “That’s, um, still ... an oscilloscope as the display. https://youtu.be/9iHzG0J_maE A

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT has been an incredible experience. I like… genuinely love swimming so I’ve had so much fun being a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  MIT Admissions Bloggers! I started writing a very sentimental, highly ... the first day of classes, you become a freshman, but until then you are just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/7xU2HMnvRcLsGDOwcq7hQI?si=a110f5fbcd514711 “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d been talking about ... voila! Four-day festival tix! A friend of mine volunteered as well. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... two weeks: I got a UROP! I attended a mixer organized by the MIT ... ’t do anything along those lines last year—I didn’t send out a single cold

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica ... creative MIT students are, it's no surprise that the effort was a massive success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary ... can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... even the flame test. No CPW-goer would set out for a day's adventures ... disciples to curse the physical laws restricting them to a single location at

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive ... mechanical engineering deparment). Course 2 students see a lot of this place ... story about 2.670- I took it a year ago, took a million pictures, then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  undergrad experience. A lot of you probably have class rings from high school ... is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a ... year and high school's symbol on one side, and a custom design on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend ... right on the Massachusetts Bay, and I always get a little nervous on the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... over the years, including the most recent one. The first was a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025