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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  people who'll stick by you for your entire time at MIT. and living groups ... an event where we chill with freshmen at the Burton Conner grills and ... Google Form based on the one we've used in past years. And then boom

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  is a really cool thing that happens every year at Next House! Students ... INCREDIBLE! Anastasia Music Videos "In My Dreams" really just tugs at our ... THISSSSSS ^ This is an actual snippet from our google doc as we were writing

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

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... of advice from experienced friends, googling and learning from mistakes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the ... it is on the forefront of the ed tech movement. As early as 2001, at ... your team solve at the Festival of Learning? Share your ideas in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many ... to life? Google images are incredibly useful as an initial starting ... Nov 8th at 7:30 pm in Kresge Little Theatre! Tickets are free!   I have

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  things with them that you can both enjoy.  Some of my best friends at MIT are the ones that I met at CPW and during orientation/rush, and I ... during the weekend, there is a huge support system here at MIT to help you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  at Yale (I don't need to use Google to know that Yale is an amazing ... like to be able to keep finding non-GMO diets while at MIT." I've got a ... ordinary supermarkets. I eat most of my meals at my ILG (pika) which also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never ... thing to do, at the time, and it paid off. It made me happy. It made me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... . Suddenly, I no longer had that excuse. I did have time. At the same time, I ... ” calendar so I would see a completely blank slate. Google Calendar was stark

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  Google tabs as I looked at classes I could take, majors I could choose, and ... matching Stanford hoodies together and became annoyingly giddy at the mention ... ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  class ring that MIT undergraduates receive at the end of their second year ... about shot glasses at all. why would you even think that ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... everything set up at first, since this is my first Linux system and I was ... when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  [/annotation] (which at the time had very vague policies about what we could leave and ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next ... 6.033 design project preliminary report so nisha doesn't yell at me, i scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ... cause, whether it's building a robot or performing science research at a ... drive team during my junior year, heartbroken and at a complete loss for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  sense of community that they found at mit, the exhilaration of solving psets late at night accompanied by best friends and long, languishing ... engineering (?!) internship at local newspaper mit puns (e.g. “i’m excited

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  pardon the incoherentness. Right now I'm at an airport, watching my ... bubble. How and when did I 'grow up' ? I once saw a toddler at an airport ... instead because it's tropical, unlike the weather. Hey at least it wasn't an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  Silva. He's painted my name at least five times since I've been here as we ... and care are everywhere at the Institute. update March 2025: last month, Glenn passed at the age of 78. You can read his obituary in The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight ... do but line up for blizzard sundaes at my dorm, Burton Conner. And

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013