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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  freshman exams were the easiest ones." "Let's hope so!" "I could go in there ... half of me was focused on the construction going on in Killian Court ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  People in dorms with dining halls occasionally ask me, “So in East ... , I chuck it in my calendar with the event name and room number. Some ... clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  hope you’ll keep loving this place in the complicated, IHTFP, way just ... positions that are due in an hour... All in one senior evening. Next week, you might be doing that after an interview in New York. Interviews: you never

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  . Yes, the website that your middle school English teacher probably rained ... “regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film ... in [annotation note="do kids these days even know what shark tale is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Just kidding! ('ll be here all week, bah dam ching!) But, in all seriousness, the Ring Committee really ... recognized rings in the world (and no animals were harmed in the manufacturing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• 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 ... enjoy long car rides with my friends. We blast tunes, indulge in snacks

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... project—and college—thinking there were just a few big problems in the world ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• 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 / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... impression of college was from scrolling on college websites, watching media

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  exist in droves—McKinsey information sessions are packed full, pre ... time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  GPS coordinates on the website, and started walking in the direction we ... I've mentioned in prior posts that my hall, Tetazoo, in East Campus is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... remember back in high school, every college admissions officer highlighted ... research. Some promised that every student could do research at least once in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... event tickets. At 10:00am and 11:28am respectively, an e-mail came in from ... posts in one month and ten days. I noticed that I had put almost all of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  -ultraboost collab shoes and fell in love. Like any sane person, I knew not to buy them ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024