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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third double happened to be in the same CMS.100 class as Danny. As soon as the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... . Now I’m just thinking how in the world the SAT – which has nearly 200 ... decided to start something. This one’s about how jaded I am about buying

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  of times just to see how they were doing. They seemed to be getting ... Hasbro to see if they'd be interested in producing and manufacturing them ... Plushies finished up their stay in the museum at Lowell and were transferred to the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears ... values. So in order to get that, you need to make sure that you don’t crash ... . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go-to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants I'd go to were [annotation note="small local chain with pizza that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  on in my life, let alone how to write about it." A lot has changed in ... 've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I ... course obliged, because she is just that cool. "How did you get involved ... just happy to see fresh and current MIT student faces, but after getting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.) ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... over after a few days. 2. I am old and need to get a real person job. I'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  : YOU!!! Hope to see you there tonight! Love and "HOW HIGH CAN THE ... , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... 's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to ... for that class was to  "Make An Agent." For this project, you must make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... it themselves. At this point in my life, I think I agree. When I try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... how it is humanly possible to skip meals; I am hungry, hear me roar), I ... ’m qualified to use that phrase to its fullest extent, especially considering how

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016