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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most ... process.) Every year, a group of sophomores, formally known as the Ring ... working, and like all those who graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this ... "Underworld." Although the budget was a bit higher than our usual fare, I knew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... was a few more meters away to say things outright. I was a girl; I wasn ... that end, I did a lil email poll. Here are some (minorly condensed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and ... not only a birthday but an anniversary! What are the chances?" Most ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but ... of a sudden a big optional means that an 800 or 790 or whatever is not ... understand the claim to not trust it and ignore like a 550, but if you have an

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... , not for more than a few weeks, a traveller passing through her old stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  a design class with a project every week. The first four projects ... Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I ... looks like an E with a weird flag. The 1 and the E being attached does

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  ’t accept my friend’s 5-dollar bill. A normal person probably would have given up there, but since I am a solidly abnormal person, I dragged my friend ... of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding ... had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... 'd requested and discarded essays, I may have killed a tree. I'll plant one when

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet feeling). Approximately three months ago, I stepped out of a six hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome everyone to campus. Andre H. '24 gave a great speech that was equal parts fun

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  things. CMS.616 - Games and Culture; A class that talks about the impact ... just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like ... ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... ’t start out that way. The year begins innocuously enough, wooing you into a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot ... short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025