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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  Gamemasters~ for the fun of it. We then set up our first form game, [annotation ... , claimed that he could’ve coded up a webapp for all this in 45 minutes — but ... the real game for the following weekend, but due to conflicts, ended up

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  freshmen sign up for?" You'll register for your classes with your academic ... talked for a bit about some canoli's he picked up in a boston italian place ... It's time for more questions and answers! sailmaker asked, "How many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  bought a ticket doesn't show up, but there was no way for me to reserve a ... came, where I had time to crawl up into a ball on my bed and sleep. For ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  wardrobes and desks fill up; others empty out; all participants of the same ... , each one after they finish the last of their finals, departing for train ... floor slowly fade away, as projects are quietly abandoned for january

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... for, well, MIT Admissions, things didn’t go the way I’d planned. I ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for ... super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  up late and snagged a bagel at the cafe in Lobby 7. lunch/dinner: for ... events put on by cultural clubs.  plan ahead for free food events I ... early to volunteer. I froze a handful of meals to save for later. Rating

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  't really stand for anything now, so the directors come up with a backronym ... ="712"] idk why this became 30 minutes i could've sworn i signed up for an ... started ended, seemingly for no reason. Messages popped up when we tried to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  that and putting it together into what works for me. I hate those cliche ... . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of ... have an obsession with productivity for the pure sake of productivity

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader—Professor Eddie Farhi, Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics—found himself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  move: forward. And so you pick yourself up. And you take it one thing at ... out to my friend Rukia H. '21 for helping with this playlist). Give ... head up high. Because you've come a long way. And you deserve to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... hours! That brought our total up $3,886. Special guests of the night ... began asking us how they too could do their own fundraiser for causes they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... an actual break for me this year- it seems like almost every other ... 't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things ... opened up the application the night before it was due and hacked out a few ... left for me and the other 20+ Cantabrigians and I couldn't be more

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  climb the iconic front steps and glance up at William Barton Rogers’ name – MIT’s founder – chiseled high up in the building’s façade.     It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  waiting left! ‚ô• (P.S. Thank you, Kuljot '13, for helping me come up with ... I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... up in an East Campus room was equipped with a laser pointer, a ... : Then the artist cheered up: We stood out there, cheering and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  just about 1.8 Mb and is totally worth it if you have dial-up, go for it ... flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and ... liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  .[/annotation] All and all, the fall semester had its ups and downs. I wanted to write ... aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  - it was kind of a gut thing. I showed up for CPW, loved it. I also had ... 're setting yourself up for a lot of unhappiness down the line if you close ... , for most people, is made up of getting through those introductory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013