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• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  , because mit dorms aren't just buildings. as an example, danny wrote a post that helps explain a lot of why i love east campus. i don't want to ... relief, but for me, it was a scream because i didn't know what to make of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... ,[/annotation] if I’d like a [annotation note="APPARENTLY he didn’t actually say “to ... generous term. I’m a couple of inches too short for this to go smoothly, so I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn't ... one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck ... : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  Prime membership (with free two-day shipping) for a year. And, supposedly, students have been taking advantage of this, now being so lazy they can’t even go to the store to pick something up. I’ll admit I’m no less guilty

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office ... , it was like playing a video game - lots of exploring and getting lost ... traveling in circles. :-) Now that I'm more familiar with the tunnels, the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  example, that Sam's initials are S.A.M. We also talked about Real People ... Once, a man whom we can only assume must have been truly desperate responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  TECK!" But he didn't look over. So I went and got a slightly closer look ... fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a ... my subscription to [annotation note="Honestly? I’m a few months behind ... astray down a rabbit hole of isometric patterns. I don’t really remember

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  it’s meant to be.    Hi y’all! I’m Wide Tim, a beaver named Tim ... the STEMs… I’m from a piece of each of us at MIT, and beyond this ... Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  officially missed the last T run of the night and decided to take a taxi back ... . But I'm sure you've all already heard that and won't actually accomplish ... give them a list of cool things you did- and by that I don't mean a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... thick, stubborn Problem Sets. Segways don't have airbags. But, for a few ... my birthday. I'm not in high school. I got a B. It's been one week

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  wasn't the same house -- but the blue sky and the warm colors struck a ... 's like they can't wrap their heads around the concept of a state that has ... didn't finish it to a level of using it for tours, but it looked pretty

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  cryptogram, and from there, what could they be a cryptogram for? This one didn’t ... decent. I also helped write a piece of the endgame, which isn’t yet ... . Yes, it’s solvable. Encoded: I haven’t otherwise coded in at least a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  wasn't sure what to expect, but I did ask my parents to bring me a few ... ! I didn't know such a world championship even existed! I didn't know ... whole thing that I wouldn't have enjoyed it. College has helped me grow a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  , I didn’t really have a clue of what to do with the actual algorithm logic. Since there are 81 cards in a deck, it definitely wasn’t feasible ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  that the executive board won't be reconsidering the decision. I posted a ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008