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• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  behavior of a society.” Which… does sound very manipulative, and I swear I’m ... everyone is eating dinner. Boston Commons gets buried, person A doesn’t see the message, and on Saturday you find out that person A can't make it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating ... a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt ... . What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost fan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  year? We won't know until a few days after May 1, when admitted students ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn't ... that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  on the same day. Yes, I'm not very happy about that fact, but it ... , I know that's a lot of chemistry and math talk right there. Yes, that was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  , he didn’t have a ton of information to work with… but I think it’s still a bit weird how he told me that I shouldn’t be going to Urgent Care ... RNA vaccines within a century. Don’t underestimate the power of music In

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  you are. You remind yourself that you aren't amidst a tragedy, that you ... this with anything. I like to count. When I'm near flowers or a plant, I ... the day in a haze. Couldn't focus on anything. Got half a problem set

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Radio Astronomy PowerPoint. I'm more nervous about this one; I don't know ... I'm already a junior in college and must seem very old to these high ... them is a brief "hey, guys, sorry - I don't mind you talking, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  anywhere (e.g. "I'm not actually gonna get there tomorrow because something--a ... pack in a lot. The most important thing we still hadn't done was the most ... trip provided a lot of epiphanies I would be remorseful if I didn't share

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I’m ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn’t ... before. I'm ashamed to admit that I spent a little while sulking, before

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  during my test, but I’m okay with that. I literally don’t have the mental ... This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  course, my classes are impossible this term and I haven't slept in a while ... 21M.840: Create a text for a 3-5 minute performance. This text must be ... On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e ... . We'll view the movie "Pi", while simultaneously enjoying a dinner of pizza pies. To top the evening off we'll have a Pi competition; the person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  days. If you don't, don't worry: I assure you that you have a host, and ... Jane W asked, Matt, I have a question about CPW. Will we know who ... at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  .[/caption] Where I'm from in Camarillo, California, we have a dry season, a wet ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  -of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  up. Or, just buy a new eraser. Don't throw your dirty washcloths ... after my freshman year, I subletted a room owned by my friend Evan T. ‘19 ... objects they don’t need anymore to people who love collecting new things. I'm

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you ... Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  !] Anyways, as you've probably figured out by now, I'm a big TV fan. I watch a ... didn't make the list, for various reasons. Here are a few more lists of ... this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  I don’t even really have words for (there was this thing with a ... up a conversation. “I’m just working here after church,” he said ... , and haven’t regretted a single moment of it.    

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016