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• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  like I had from last week. Tuesday: Dropped 6.0002. It wasn’t a ... I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything ... actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... ): you did such a great job at holding water. oh great green bottle, you will be missed. I feel like a mosaic, comprised of fragments of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a ... their future home on campus. For those of you who haven't already decided

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... , rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ...  (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and drink at California Pizza Kitchen) for guessing "leprosy." I don't know, I thought it was a pretty reasonable answer. I know I promised an entry on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th ... not have a definitive date and time when letters will be mailed, but it ... expect a large envelope and not a tube. Students not admitted will receive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  made within three days wouldn’t even hold a candle to how far they could ... "][/annotation]. Rather than a plot summary[annotation note="most succinctly, an 18 year old ... wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  called Two Truths and a Lie, that blogger was me, and today I'm a slightly ... I'm already 19...here comes the nostalgia...   A lot has ... a problem. Sure I learned a lot, but I didn't feel different. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Daniel would start by taking a class, because he didn't want the game to ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they graduate, which they can (a) keep with them as they go through their four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  ."]cancelled.[/annotation] After almost a year and a half of pandemic delays, it wasn’t a surprise ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass ... ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  have all day. - I'm a big believer in getting to know a living group ... Let’s take a tour. Begin by walking down Dorm Row, which takes you ... 's cultural houses, as well as a few culture-unspecific living groups, like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  axolotl. lush caves weren’t around when i first started playing; it’s a ... wouldn’t be able to swim across it. so i crafted a boat, hopped on, and ... not precise and 4,000,000.1 isn’t a number the computer can record. for

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  why Helvetica wasn't a summer blockbuster.)) Not that I've kept track ... be, will never win me an Oscar even if I'm partially Al Gore. 2 ... something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  the joint has sufficient coverage, we don't quite weld over a straight line, but rather as loops or as zigzags. I'm more of a loops girlie, but ... fast would make the weld look like a series of individual tacks that won't

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it probably wouldn't even qualify as a city. Where is it? Up in the ... French. I'm a little bit of a language nerd and I've been taking Spanish ... question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to ... catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  . So don't judge a book by it's cover, and take a chance to try something ... settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P For the record, during my CPW, it rained for a little and despite that

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors ... in a reasonable amount of effort over the break. (Kind of like high school. Yeah, it's sad.) I'm not sure if my situation is representative of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008