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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  formed.  Even for those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  in an a cappella group for most of college as well as college choir ... voice there. In that spirit, here's a thread for MIT folks who are ... playing with (and for) other people. This dream took many forms when I got

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that ... now interview for MIT keep asking me, in one form or another, what I got ... orchestra for the first time in five years. I bought a camera and I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  in) and the "Patriotic Sing-Along." The live canons for 1812 are always ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them ... other foods in the tandoor. On Sunday, we started at our favorite brunch place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any ... definitely nsfw) 4b) ... I was also really busy. 5) For the amount of insane

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same dorm for all ~four years, communities are tight-knit and develop

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  table, with toilets for seating and live lizards in the glass table ... Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... article was passed around in a Beijing interns email thread, introducing the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they ... was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  , anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a ... emotional about it - overwhelmed for the admits and devastated for the denied. In fact, joking aside in the previous thread, I honestly don't know yet

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway!) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of ... homeless people in Boston this Thanksgiving. We partnered with a homeless shelter to donate the proceeds to and, in less than two weeks, enough

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in ... to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... living in the city, but the woods are really perfect for the two main ... . It's also a great place for a date. :-) Sleepy Hollow is a cemetery in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  pretty excited for the evening when we got there. This is actually him in ... . People in the MIT community use it for bouldering, which doesn't involve ... The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  is, unless you aren't looking for flexibility), then you're in luck. If ... unique resources available in the modern era for learning mathematics. How ... . After attending the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  acronym for literally every department"]HRS[/annotation] mandated that we ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the ... of the airport near ticketing for 40 minutes while waiting for it to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005