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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College ... Science Core classes. It's a pretty good event. - There's CityDays, which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 stairs, taken a four-hour tour down through Rhineland, and traveled over 200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Bonsai Kittens were a hoax started by MIT students ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  people who are interested in double-majors, if only because it's a little ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  celebrated with our friends with a cake and some quality reminiscing. I wanted ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice process a little mysterious at best, so I thought I'd clear up the timeline

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• 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