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• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its “buildy” culture (like the awesome, huge structures East Campus puts up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the ... , these are it. First up—FPOPs! FPOPs: First-Year Pre-Orientation Programs ... part of the FPOP actually ended up being learning about rocket propulsion

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was ... on 35 mm projection for the Spirited Away screening that weekend and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in tangible and pragmatic ways. For example, check out the MIT-Washington DC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  histories buried beneath our cities. For 3 weeks, our class studied in São ... films to prepare for our class discussions. So as I travelled between ... and I would walk about 10 minutes to the metro, ride for 3 stops, and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  up to paint for the Borderline x Storywall Project (or just Borderline ... .   How did you come up with the idea for your mural? Melody W ... process took around 6-7 hours. We sign up for slots to paint; and when we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  decides to grab a healthy patient who shows up for a checkup. He takes the ... Introduction: Keeping up with political news this month has ... being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  gut thing. I showed up for CPW, loved it. I also had been reading the ... fast pace we've been going at has been a struggle for me to keep up with ... Hey all! Time for another round of Q&A. A few general comments: 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  for the second short essay: can you tell me (at least three days before ... a bit outdated... Also, I have two possible responses for the world we ... HST, and they seem to think it's great. As for your second question, yes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  for this year's edition of Technique (the yearbook of MIT, since 1885), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and ... ask for an extra week), I am proud to say that we are completely on time

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan ... keep my head up and be realistic. how bad could things possibly get? cj ... woke up in the morning. dan: you know, most people who were sixteen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  . For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to ... than I expected! but still kinda sad). I asked for the average estimated

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... every weekday, and a lengthy pset each week. I’m keeping up with the ... knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... for a little bit. Watch me eat my words in a few months time. I love

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... , attending staff meeting, etc. It takes up about twenty hours each week. I get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... around with it for 10 minutes and finding it horribly disgusting. But with ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  "exercise once a semester" but that's just setting myself up for ... unafraid. I want to get better at speaking up, asking for favors, and being ... Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  keeps a person warm after falling into freezing water for up to 12 hours ... for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  has the benefit of being in the middle of the week for those of us who ... , November 22nd Waking up on Fridays involves quite a few glassy-eyed stares ... essay writing fun for an entire semester! Because it is a writing based

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013