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• 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 / 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 / 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 / How to MIT

  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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  of a scientist or engineer is what makes artists at MIT so good at ... tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... doing theater at MIT was because the Musical Theater Guild was performing

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement[/caption] [caption id="attachment_104349" align="aligncenter" width

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• 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 / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... friends seemed like a nearly impossible concept. At the beginning of FPOP ... better when I see one of my members smile brightly at me and stop to have a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  at MIT and affirmed by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association was voted on and approved at a meeting of the Faculty (Records of ... 've also seen called the Office of Publications. The Office existed since at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  and have lots of people yelling at me that I claimed that their major ... , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  2400. A close friend of mine (who is now at Dartmouth) got a 2350 using ... put passive studying at the start, middle, and end of all my study ... also good at doing the same thing for a wider range of topics. I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved ... , where you make reference to it. Summarize your points at the end of each ... grade shot up to the bar I set for myself, way back at the beginning of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular ... The Planets suite. While the orchestra played, Spock sat at the front of ... ’s chair at the front of the stage was right next to the conductor, so that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... Mondays and Wednesdays for recitation (my recitation is at 11am in 24-402 in ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  year anyway b) plenty of people get in from schools that don't even offer ... just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006