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  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... seems to have grown each year. This year, we had around 70 signups and we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  to read and pronounce Middle English, writing pieces on radio astronomy for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace Observatory to look through telescopes and sketch constellations, learning about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events ... interested students were disappointed that they did not live close enough to Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to it. It's pretty cool!! Except hard to do :( So understandably, there

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am extremely excited to share my MIT world with the blogosphere and to heighten this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It ... equally impressive, and you have an entire Admissions office here to help

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists ... completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL ... to head over and get down with our bad selves. If you want to feel ... , talk to other people, and unfortunately, dance to songs that were only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the ... insanity point. I worked out one problem as best as I could and decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Restaurant & Bakery in Miami. After Miami, it was off to Florida's Gulf Coast, where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow at any rate. EA admits: after today's build, you'll be able to upload ... vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  airport, awaiting the plane that would take us to Minneapolis en route to Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking ... , anything that reminded me of the things I’d decided to leave behind. As I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019