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• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle ... represented in our phrases. Because of this, I've been thinking a lot about ... , and you make a good one--to try. You actually can be interested in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  water war weapons. I have sporks on my shirts. I chip in to buy our ... as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a ... nearly every freshmen male participates in Rush. This is totally expected

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... in the morning is amazing. Then go to Bunker Hill and climb the stairs ... along with it. That's right, your comments actually affect what happens in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found that having a job and participating in an extracurricular activity have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Canadian road trip and spent our days chilling in the woods. Here are the ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But ... rides with my friends. We blast tunes, indulge in snacks, and share

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... ,[/annotation] winning a modest but appreciated $15! In my opinion, winning required more ... from the games, which the Gamemasters have so graciously made public. In

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind ... ditched it eventually and decided to improvise once in the town. Salem

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of ... pretty good advice sometimes.      My weekdays in January were filled

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  . Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of ... ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... picnic in Boston Common. Last year, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company ... closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my ... since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... included over 80 people. Mystery Hunt traditionally begins in Lobby 7 at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  at several schools in January and February. The process was [annotation ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... : … cj: this is my blog post. i'm the interviewer. i'm the one in charge, okay? alan: … dan: ah. dan: you're trying to pretend you're in control

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  each other's experiences. To be clear, I don’t judge others in this way ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel ... put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... notification in the social channel of Microsoft Teams. In my office, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  MITES website: "MITES participants spend a rigorous 30-35 hours in classes ... ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... A few courses in Astrophysics Hope that's helpful! Tracy wrote, "Does MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005