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• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  learned so much about how to college by just being a college student and ... does hold :P) I find giving advice exceptionally hard. There is a simple ... over life. This post is a bit tricky to write because it’s actually

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  " is a fairly short list. One of the bigger things I did was teaching an ... Board) is a student group that focuses on improving computing, both in ... . Additionally, they run a series of IAP classes, covering everything from how to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  ), some red and black balloons, a large flat cardboard box that once held a folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons ... , a sacrifice, and time. I sent out the dormspam. [caption id

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  frames. The only other downside to my room is that I couldn’t squeeze in a ... brown, and green and brown is such a compelling combination. My room feels ... I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  love a class so much at the same time? 18.02 Book Wait, I took ... at MIT. Planner MIT gives all the freshmen a planner. This is mine ... Technology Review. The manuscript book is for scratch work on PSETS. How to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  at MIT realize that a zombie invasion is a serious threat, one that ... threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  mit is sunny and then rainy and then sunny again -   two ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  now a freshman at Princeton and is hosting a show called The Freshman on ... . Princeton has 4,600 undergrads, which is only slightly more than MIT's 4,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  back as an upperclassman (a junior!? WHAT!?) is much different than going ... how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... events but a ton of optional fun ones. MIT is very big into student

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  having fun A: or something A: so you know how this guy passed by B: yeah ... don't A: ok cool A: oh god B: what A: my life is just so insignificant A: like, i've been spending so much of my life just A: doing nothing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  ambition. I also hope that this gives you a sense of how MIT is wrestling ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... , and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... solution to a real world problem. Each year there is a theme to the robot ... tournament and how good a solution you develop for the project, but also on

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  horror. Being perceived for what I willingly post online is a weird feeling ... eventually, got it done. So, here is a day in the life, from May 1st till ... about the hermit crab needing a bath. The Banana Lounge is basically a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  some puzzles, which will be marked. This paragraph is not a puzzle. I ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... ’t know Wrapup A puzzle Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... . And there is one really, really cool thing you can do on chalkboards

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many ... 't think there's too much of a bias toward births on different dates, so ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... much just read and went to be early. I even exercised as a form of ... roommate after [annotation note="see: x = 0 is a possibility and does not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they ... field. But in a lot of cases, that sort of attitude is self-fulfilling; a ... really knowing how. So I'm going to talk a bit about things I've done

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  maaaaybe I exaggerated some of those things. After all, this is based on a ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  how much it really looks like Evie. Check it out! The origami Evie ... me among the very impressed. MIT is a great place for origami ... Following last week's Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006