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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  see each sorority with open and objective eyes. I can confidently say ... different without my sorority, and so I urge all freshmen to try out ... swept away in the process that was rush -- attempting to figure out if

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... 's Public Service Center.) Funny story- When I pulled out the digital camera ... Stalked." Well, the next morning we found out that I had been assigned to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  out the cities from my list and I typed them in, slowly and badly. This ... how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic ... wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  out I don’t have to be perfect in order to be happy with what I do. How ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id ... left, and I still needed to use a drill. So I cut out the floor symbols

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  three different aliases in the blogosphere) and I prepared a modest ... ’d caught herself in a pre-college Alaskan life), and I stumbled through the ... when you head to the dining hall?” she requested. “If I can wake up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  sometime during high school, but in 9th grade, I was still intent on ... that I sent out to some of the most distinguished American ... do black holes have angular momentum?” and “Can I time-travel?” and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  picture. The first is that because of the angle you can't see me. I promise ... . I felt a bit like Ashton Kutcher in his new commercial for Axe, except ... Melis just blogged about Senior Ball so I figured that it'd be a good

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... (but I'm sure there are people who'd argue..). You can stay undecided for ... to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in ... 's, but all too often it can also mean being stuck in lab, not eating.  And ... access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  participating in art, dance, or theatre for just as long. I mean, you ... composers! (Can you tell I never got into piano after all? Such regrets) First example, I know a guy who had little singing experience. In high

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  nanotechnology lab I visited on a UROP tour was also exciting, and they gave out soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  not offering admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is ... all worked out okay. I’m closing comments on this blog post to ... students can be found here, with more information about next steps to come in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and ... everything I can. If you've ever seen me near music, you'll quickly learn that ... school, I danced at home for fun, twirling through my kitchen in socks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024