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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The ... from the city center. It's about 45 minutes to walk there. It is an ... -MIT Exchange. This is the actual exchange program. CMI is the Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ?” “Exciting! When’s your live concert?  The vibe here is absolutely bananas, and ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  !) Question: What is the transition from high school to MIT like? Academically ... -record. It is meant to level the playing field, so that you will succeed at MIT ... foot on campus.) Question: What is the social life like? Hopefully, by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... friends, but also as a chance to get poke bowls at the mall, try out a new ... that the summer is nearing its end, the cashier’s started to remember my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... creates perfect little dams. And then the rain is free to collect everywhere ... . And then the guys whose job it is to shovel snow don't really have snow

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  get a free ticket. I rule. The movie is the most adorable thing you will ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... basically amounted to a hot dog shaped into a little loaf size, plus the best ... DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  to get students to talk to me, but this is understandable -- it took me ... wanted to -- and this is almost certainly not the same kind of messaging ... 't think that being like me -- like people I know at MIT -- is the only way

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  your memories before you move on to the next great adventure, full of ... sometimes it feels like I didn't. I moved to Minnesota the moment elementary ... countertops, switching the curtains... I returned to a house that wasn't a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What is the best extracurricular I should be doing right now? How do you ... . The last week of GTL was the best by far. Although I got sick

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... supposed to leave the lid on your tupperware when you microwaved something ... the roads I was just starting to get intimately familiar with, in spite

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  walk through the tunnels to get around campus. Tunnel66 is an interactive ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an ... ’t wait to see this tower built collaboratively by members of the MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  , however, the important thing to note is that for the past two years, I have ... raised to stand by my beliefs; the things I think to be true about life ... -immature group of 16-year-olds. In a tale that takes us all the way back to 3rd

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here ... theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the ... hanging around the courtyard will be happy to show you around or answer your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many ... . The podcast is hosted by two scientists, both of them biologists, and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  convenient way to keep track of the bajillion things that i want to get done at ... life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... 18.404 and the 6.031 alpha) and during the less hard weeks, i try to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid Poll: Who was your favorite superhero?

  

  : 1. Who was yours? 2. What is the ultimate super power? My responses: 1. Batman 2. Invisibility This entry is partially inspired by the ... Flashback to the days of elementary school: Did anyone else read

  • by Bryan
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  year” to attend. The Alloy Orchestra, based here in Cambridge, is ... create the soundtrack. The film is a precursor to almost every sci-fi movie ... [by Farre Nixon '11] Check out the Metropolis trailer! On Saturday

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011