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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon "Underdog" was syndicated in the 1980s ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  attention when it was introduced in 2005. It was featured on Good Morning ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... constraints (needing to get all my units in so I can graduate)!! Some stats ... debates, and apart from those questions being very… relevant in recent

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... as 60 units a semester, but still haven't really had much time. So when ... 'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Two exams down, one to go. Well, strictly speaking, 462 units down ... 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as ... for information about non-MIT meal kits and meal prices in general. The ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly train in chess" so he could later challenge Chambers in a chess match and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes Scholarships. In case you missed this or this, let me update you: so far, 44 MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from birthdays, holidays, and what allowance I got, so that I could buy myself a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... in another country? And what if you’ve got other plans for the summer—like an internship, or research, or going home to see family? In that case

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  standing around in Best Buy, confusing every single customer and employee ... About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab ... Tube. He searched for "Improv Everywhere Best Buy" and showed me a hilarious

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  recommend that: First years take at least 48 units in the fall. You can go ... slots in nicely on top of the 48 units you might already have queued, but ... First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well, it was during the pandemic, so we were buying very few things. there was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  —imagine being in a museum where you could buy any exhibit (if you have the ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... for you! Sure, students have less time for books in college, but we don

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... 't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... phrases in the English language. CJ: Business, then. It was a dark and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  Google Calendar or other similar online planning apps/websites, but we just like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017