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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... Florida teaching L'Hopital's Rule to confused high school juniors and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these ... this semester to convince myself that quantum physics is real. 6.2410 is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I LOVE MUSICALS!!! wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  with my THX speakers cranked up to MAX bass. I am AMPED. Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time... MY LOVE LETTER TO MUSICAL THEATRE  

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed by dismay to many people. I tell them "Yeah I feel like it's been such ... time like this? I was only really able to process everything and anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead, I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  answers to more questions... ------------------------------------- Andrew ... 's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to ... statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

   real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for another two hours. once i finally mustered up the willpower to get up, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to ... [annotation note="According to Wikipedia, 21 people were killed and 150 people ... , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well ... [annotation note="MIT’s main entrance to the academic part of campus"]Lobby 7 ... to them before, but sometimes I’ll see someone else talking, and they

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it switched to just cloudy. I gave up hope. I resigned myself to an incredibly banal Wednesday—except extra sad because I’d have to wake up at 8:00 am

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ), and Borderline (murals) are easy ways to meet other people interested in making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the ... might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  'm hunched over my computer trying to finish my work as I mumble, sounding half-dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join [annotation note="an annual hackathon hosted at mit where you try to code a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023