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• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  thankfully had made a suggestion for where to eat, and we were off. Now ... it. On the way, Hawkins '12 thought it would be a good idea to dare ... Vermont, we decided to see where the best thing to come out of Vermont is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says a scholarly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  ” computers). Somehow, finding this led you to the grocery produce number for a ... (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor ... (If anyone finds the pattern, I will be suitably impressed.) After a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some ... New House a couple of years ago due to an extensive renovation effort ... dorm on MIT’s campus that year was a steaming pile compared to all

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was still at MIT, so the night before “yesterday,” I took a train back to MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... , a secret base, an HQ. Personalize it and make it unique to you. Also

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Jimmy (left) works on Groups, a great way to connect with other beginning programmers from Missouri to Mexico. We kept walking to find Fitbit to ... companies like Bloomberg and Intuit were up to.. and we made a brief

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only ... registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where ... that year and then suddenly float off, a big "fuck you" to the person who ... seems to shout Halfway through. Where I look up and I see Raymond

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... ' for a long time; I try to burn one day each weekend, which has worked ... Saturday morning to direct a quizbowl tournament. The tournament ran fairly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  travel, to research, or to visit classmates. Find a way to go -- MIT will ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a ... determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded ... learned a lot, but didn't publish. Do I want to pursue more research? The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to ... originally going to be longer and angrier. And delivered by a hit man. A hit

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  . And if you ever want to a chuckle, find a way to get the list of 101 ... .00). We had to make a game of Hangman using Python. Thankfully, my roommate ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... liked to read the question, circle the salient points, then find the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... is related to your major; common choices are 2A-6 (comp sci), 2A-4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  missing (I need to find a scanner!). What's really neat about this shot ... visit a few weeks ago, I asked them to bring along my keyboards. As you ... artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... shelter. Her solution was to develop a program called “Emerge,” to ... hosted at Ma-Sevana: self-respect, creativity, confidence, a willingness to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006