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• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has ... none of the ones we had looked at. The announcement has a lot of big

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  looked at the picture again. Not featured: a rare sighting of me at ... stadium was rather fun 9/19/21 At the beginning of the semester, my friend ... "You can only start at top or half of the hour," religiously, and I'm not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... ." (Recognizing my male privilege), I am quite impressed at the number of runners in ... races with Kathy, but couldn't help letting loose at some of the shorter

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... Wednesday, the 17th. Day 0 - 6/13: I woke up at 5:00, threw on some clothes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... part of being alive at this time is that our youth have taken up with so ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... continuous slow breeze at your back, and it smells of cinnamon and ozone. You ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we ... this at all, because the first time we went, all of us were sitting ... This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... ) for an interview. By the end of the week, I had a UROP at Choi Lab. It ... it turns out that at 10:45, Matias had sent me an email with an offer

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  year at mit, i decided i wanted to help teach a class. there are lots of ... activity to satisfy all of these objectives at once, and in general it ... some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out that most of the team members had a better chance of "owning" an NFL team
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  same place. At MIT I made friends from across the world, many of whom ... codesigner at every phase of the design process as an integral part of the team ... started a club, but because so many of our students arrive at MIT having

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  minute lesson and the top 10 players with the most XP at the end of a given ... Duolingo for that given week. At first I was rationally apprehensive of ... , coincidentally at the bottom of Diamond League, and with a week between the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  ?"). At the end of each lecture, I felt mentally drained from the anxiety ... better. It felt like a clusterf*ck of students just hammering away at ... choices for me and, at the end of the day, that's what it truly comes down

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  at places that supposedly offer a diverse and challenging working ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  into twelve teams of a hundred-ish students each, and the top team at the ... , exploding kittens excels at it's ease of entry. The game can be fully ... at MIT, but time was running out. A lot of things to consider, a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  until the end of freshman year, at which point we can declare "undeclared ... though, do you know of anyone at MIT who was a member of FIRST, or recieved ... Neha is a male) was the team leader of FIRST at her school, and basically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  especially helpful at the end of the weekend. How to get into their room ... to offer (and stuff your face with free food!). Join a fun group of ... Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  "middle of campus" where the most undergraduates would be at any time ... Cormick. Distance: ⭐ - Simmons is at the far end of west campus on the north side. If ... dinner at Next more often than anywhere else. In the harsh winds of IAP

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other (it ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006