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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  CollegeHumor. The show has multiple seasons, with each season being a new D ... kinds of books are the ones that are character driven -- there can be ... dialog with the intent of being intimidating and cool, but you roll a Nat 1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Financial Aid. The last thing that may be an issue of going away from home ... in going on and to avoid being homesick. I think I will cook my own ... attending MIT will be a similar experience. Go into it expecting one thing and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... , fully prepared to be knocked out until well into the day. I woke up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  they not like and what do they absolutely love about it? Wouldn't it be great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... like this, or even this.* Last semester, I found the remedy to most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  country the opportunity to be named as 2009 Davidson Fellows, an honor ... , Philosophy or Outside the Box. To be eligible, applicants must be under the ... . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  -Conner is being renovated next year, so the Bombers will be split up until ... . We’d be moving out for the dorm renovations anyway, so I wanted to have ... great about being a Bomber. Being able to feel at home anywhere on the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  in advance. Don't do that. Your crisp will be less than delicious. More ... conscientously. Even a pset can be beautiful. Maybe not as beautiful as the ... something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  willing to share their inner life probably shouldn't be in this class ... may be on the same wavelength as someone else. Lupe said he wouldn ... "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  answers to questions in comments on the blog, but will reply directly to ... It's Q&A time! Ajit asked: "who is the person in the 5th picture ... room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there different halls for boys

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ability to look back on all the interesting life experiences we’ve had will be all the more valuable to us when we're all retired, our friends and ... family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  the possibility of being dangerous to yourself and those around you ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home. But alas, while all my friends and family were out enjoying the hot

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook ... I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  , but they will be performing at WMBR Live again soon). As Keri mentioned ... One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  -checking?)[annotation note="to be fair, the exact wording could differ between translations ... boston in the time i was actually there. if i knew everything would be ... means loving the world enough to be grateful for every moment i spend in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  to the speed of light. 32. Discovery is learning that you will burn ... . When hundreds of families descend on the MIT campus once again - it'll be ... The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  ” them in any meaningful way. I will be experiencing the rowing team almost ... ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  infinitely better with a slab of goose liver on the side. Jean-Georges will be ... only be expressed in the present tense. The server gently rests the plate ... experience for the first time again.”) Could it be that by dining at the world

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... alive for…That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the ... mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  consistent image online. The posting has to be regular, which is really ... Battlestar Gallactica. The characters of Battlestar Gallactica are going to be ... will not be online to tweet about it. Because that’s not how real life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  do we search for concepts within video materials? The latter would be ... this semester will allow me to be part of an FoL Hackathon team another ... “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017