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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  coming in third and we're thinking of installing one of the webcams into R2 ... In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  About a week ago, I was ensnared Google Gnome, courtesy of my quasi ... ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates (one of which is my actual roommate) play Hollow Knight Silksong. We were

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  in was the insane amount of stress and time that goes into The Job Hunt ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of ... separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  the beginning of the summer, because he was helping me move into my ... way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  % admission rate. (From here -- a very fun read, if you're into this kind of ... out a number which reflects your chances of getting into MIT? First of ... into MIT if you only have three of these four characteristics... you can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known as Patriots' Day, which falls on the third Monday of April ... with the hubbub of CP✱, this year's iteration of CPW, and my general

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  tumble into the backseat of his car, where my friend and classmate Ava ... descend into a travesty of near-gluttonous abandon, ordering all the things ... through a bunch of people all standing around and talking, and walk into the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  of pre-semesterhood, I joined Ben on a much-appreciated dive into the ... and turned the Halloween costume displays into masterpieces of satire ... over it. After a long morning that melted into three hours of soft

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  until it was absorbed into the Department of Applied Biological Sciences ... way into the oven, but thankfully it didn't ruin the latest issue of The ... into Riya, Isabelle, Jordyn, and Vinson (two of whom were busy crocheting

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  fit drawing back into my catalogue of skills. I'm just gonna see how ... I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP psychology class, we learned about the different theories of emotion ... experience of emotions hinges on two things: (1) the physiological arousal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into ... information into your head? Regardless, the fact remains that even with all of ... while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  into you, and make sure you maintain a certain level of sanity. To be ... achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  ; into this. And, of course, inserting a lot of gratuitous Terminator ... While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , but at the price of torpedoing myself neck-first into the turf. I ... Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety ... Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  thought I would give you a brief insight into some of the questions that ... free energy were converted into heat, would the temperature of the drop ... provides all students with a common core of foundational scientific knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  tracing a pathway up until our line of sight would disappear into the ... triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically: the snow folds into itself & the green pushes out; fireweed lights

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College Admissions Decisions 1. Dream about getting into colleges that don't exist. (Direct quote from a friend last year - "I had a dream that I got into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was ... get placed into the recitation sections you want! No matter how you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013