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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just ... apply to grad school. Your life is so much more than sets and lectures and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  just didn't have the mental stamina nor capacity to handle that much ... was most prevalent in the beginning of my freshmen year, when freshmen ... DPhiE. And so, despite knowing I vibed with the people much better in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make ... -so-cute-yet-not-very-intimidating mascot) crowd surfing later in the night? It was the perfect end to a ... , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... home. In my next few entries leading up to the Mystery Hunt, I'll link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  he says it’s harder to work on them in the city, and lately, his ... originally in the smaller uneven double, but moved to the bigger one at the end ... most of his problem sets from this desk. Right next to it is a wall

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  exercise to the reader. Bad chemistry This last roadmap is arguably the most ... final exam? (Yes) Is it possible to have a [annotation note="The average ... ) Most of the resulting roadmaps are rather… questionable, to say the least

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  . What field of study appeals to you the most right now? (100/100) I applied to MIT largely because of the program in Urban Science and Planning ... the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  bookstore in NYC and bought it for me on the spot. i finally got around to ... thinking about the CMS thesis that i am soon to write and how much i would ... super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  back in to help manage the closing show. I tell you this terrible ... slow cook the ribs in the oven, and then transfer them to the barbecue ... and will absorb much of the flavor that you use in the initial rub

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  to next house. as the swipe entry is in most cases inaccessible to me ... archaic: it is, to say the least, in need of repair. i am not sure which i ... enough to survive out in the wild. Thankfully was able to enter the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  . I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... ! ACTIVITY! LECTURE! WITTY! WOO!" Now?  "mow the lawn. go to work. clean stuff ... 've let your life go to hell, so boring!" Not so!  Life is actually pretty

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... personals nearby. His head is bowed in concentration at the floor in front of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  earlier. Some notes: The Midyear Report is an online form that is to be ... accepted during Early Action. The Midyear Report is to be completed by you ... the Midyear Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... : … cj: this is my blog post. i'm the interviewer. i'm the one in charge ... . alan: and i'm alan. i'm cj's anxiety. cj: glad to have everyone in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  happen in The Tech in the few days before our most recent issue went to ... Sunday night (the 13th), in an apparent reaction to the suicide of internet ... , go figure. While the internet response to this event was large, in

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates ... -scale flying for the MIT community. Open to pilots and non-pilots, the club ... to the MIT campus, organizes fly-outs to New England airports and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  Plushies finished up their stay in the museum at Lowell and were transferred to the ... it before, here, and I'll probably blog about it again sometime in the future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009