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• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to ... is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases ... number, and ATM machine. But if you want to be a functioning member of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... an email to a writing professor as to why you want to take their ... wouldn’t have known to ask.  1. Ask the prof to save you a seat ahead of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  week, in preparation for a CPW event that my fraternity hosts every year, Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the ... scraped off with that one. I soon arrived at Harper's Ferry to a packed room

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to ... As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  together a guidebook, and answering a giant stack of email. It's going to be ... It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  evening, or early Sunday morning (it's always hard to tell with those who do their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... . Former hotel. Don't know much since I'm not a woman, but seems to house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  breaks, where I can catch up on my life, focus on myself, take a moment to ... studying and wrote my last blog post, and had a chance to tick off urgent ... had to rush to finish our 6.810 project and I needed to finish a lab

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff I guess

  

  (s) accept me Valid Thought you might enjoy this meme ❤️​ to a photo Lmao That ... morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you. M K 2:46 AM Where is[annotation note='im hosting a sunrise watch

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... . In fact, people here are free to do almost anything they think is a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description ... wait, why was a writer speaking at MIT? Don't you go to a science and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... ’t know.   IV. it is never a race. One of the hardest things to navigate

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check in on my cross stitch livestream during CPW – link inside!

  

  Here's a link to my livestream here at CPW! I'm stitching a hacker's map I designed. The goal is to complete the entire thing before CPW is over. YouTube Livestream

  • by Snively '11
  • April 16, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and ... trying to stay caught up: bad news (congress voted to kill a bunch of ...         i've been spending a lot of time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum

  

  There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of ... open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009