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• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  ="120863" image2="120839" /] Step 16: Recover. Sleep. Wake up. Limp around for two ... It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  have for God - that I would grow up to work at PlayStation and Twitch ... the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for the very last one of those posts has crept up on me. Let's calculate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... enroll elsewhere. For Ben, this was truly more than a job. So please use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  walking up the steps to Lobby 7 every morning. That was a habit that started for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... being connected to MIT has provided for me. But most of all, I miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  before that, a group of our then-freshmen ('13) teamed up for 6.270 and won ... .k.a. Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  two for hanging up your heavy winter coat (if you don't have one, you ... A couple people have asked about suggestions for useful items with ... shipping expense. Just bring enough stuff for a few days to hold you over

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... another elaborate drawing like the one you were up all night doing, why not ... see what happens. “Just see what happens, Mom? I have a plan for this

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... . What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  called it "the most memorable elevator ride" he'd ever had. 2. Making up ... up. 4. The incredible and indefatigable MIT Cheerleading squad, featuring the bloggable Mollie. For MIT students, they're remarkably happy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  questions it made up for him never being around. He seems to be popular around ... the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now ... paint an imaginary wall for half an hour as she collected data on arm

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies. People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets and nametags; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... : Everything happens for a reason, (insert name here) is a bad person, I will ... fantasy novels and took advanced math class. Middle school was hard for me

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  characters.Signing up for your account will give you storage space (an online ... as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... -do list for the summer.For international students, information from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  it’s up to us to actually do so! I’ll sign off for now - it’s been a ... around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food ... : Collect 60 free t-shirts - ~40% complete. For whatever reason, the free t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , graduates, and/or faculty submit proposals for something cool that will ... interactive learning models for project based science, mathematics and ... environments; * Publish educationally innovative content for wide

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  lots of emotions for day 1 of my freshman year. Thoughts ran like mad in ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  back to New House. At around 7, volunteers arrived for clean-up. We ... . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  how I came up with that completion percentage for Sidequest 10. In short ... wardrobe and this has not changed for the past two years. You get tired of ... one for this year because most of the companies I want to work for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... its utility for physics and CS. I suppose I still don’t, since I’m not ... 'll spoil the punchline for you: I'm officially a course 8 major now. And yet

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021