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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... signs. Some hallways and walls looked somewhat familiar, though, so I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... Well, today was my last day of class as an undergrad. Technically the ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  ="86987" /] Meeting Steve was such an important meeting for me because I've been ... Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  have shaped me into an entirely distinct person from who I was in high ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area ... explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  [annotation note="Because there will never be an available dryer in the same ... It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of ... dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a ... easiest and the most realistic. No one has ever walked out of an exam saying

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  , and between 45 min and an hour to write the response, usually, in ... loneliness that really speaks to me, or the refuge of an old friend, even for ... encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  .g. TDC for 2015, 2014, and 2013). This year, in an attempt to make REX ... with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... so saw the Class of 2020 arrive on campus for their orientation, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to hang out, do their psets, and meet other people in their course. A few months ago, I had the idea for doing this post, but didn't actually know

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  would obviously be a bad idea. In other school news, for those of you who ... else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than ... see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  : n. MIT jargon for prospective student]. It involved many late nights ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer/early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  . After an also-difficult sophomore year, here are some strategies I've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... 's one thing they all have in common, it's that they're gonna make you ... class, there are slides posted, plus an extra notes sheet that has some of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius of 8 feet, we found that almost 13 cubic meters of snow were used in ... ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012