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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... and get to wear them for 3 extra months before we do!) Either Snively ... . Tian: For the most part, things (design ideas, to be more specific) got

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  you don't think they'll go, unless you want them to come As for the ... through Thursday for the MATCH school, so I planned to leave Thursday ... there's almost no place to go for food late at night, and certainly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was ... to check out a book for the first time (as it turns out, they exist for ... semester, chained to a computer, churning through JavaScript for just a facet

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  you to whoever read my application for seeing past my blunder. I swear I ... to be that kid recklessly hot gluing things together again. Lucky for ... Metropolis Makerspace! I learned how to 3D print and lasercut something for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who’s going to be here over the next few days for CPW, I can promise you that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... slightly better math student and want to be rewarded for that." It's kind of ... nowadays we adults are just trying to get you to relax for a second. Sheesh

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... was getting really sick of it. People were always coming to me for help ... my personal academic goal for MIT is to pull off a cummulative 4.0 GPA

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  myself to concentrate for hours on end. I would not recommend trying this ... even correct! I promptly took a nap, then went back to studying for 7 ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... usually like to make something more complicated for potlucks, but I was ... pretty similar to a Bolognese sauce for pasta, except a little spicier. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  years ahead, I knew that I had to make it. Do I feel sorry for him ... memory of visiting MIT for the first time is one I hold dear to my heart. I ... would say something like “I’d also come to learn that the world was white

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... differential privacy modules at Demo Day to various fulltimers from tons of ... posters for my room over IAP. It was pretty heartbreaking to have to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  made time for things that made me happy. Everything seemed to be going ... allowed to have for the exam, falling even farther behind. I felt like I was ... online readings for whatever I needed to finish my paper by Tuesday 2pm

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  begin on experiments with the level of detail you’re expected to for this ... time to give thoughtful and detailed explanations for all of the concepts ... experiment for the next 15 weeks Time for you and your partner to sort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a ... goes on, it becomes more and more important for interested freshmen to stick with a fraternity because basically there is no way for us to get to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... . Don't be. Be proud of the courage it took for her to cross an ocean into ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  fails to feel at least slightly terrifying for reasons I'm still trying to ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... shipped off to the Bay Area for a super ... problems and having a blast doing it. I could go on for a while as to what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... anyone runs bandit--you have to qualify for it. You have to run really fast ... marathon for you to run, and then your parents won't have to make the trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  't be able to make it to their class. I then took some notes for ... gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022