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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  . A free meal or an outing to go paintballing is always also fun as well ... LAN party. Wednesday, we went off to mini-golf. Rush is always a ... and help bring in a new awesome class to share the house with. It's also

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  we shorten to ICE (because we're so cool.) ICE is a capstone senior design course. The idea is simple, and I think it's a good one. ICE is a ... was the production of Lucretex, a valuable silicon-based organometallic

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... level. The transfer application is intended for students who have finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his ... completed in September 1970.  I was a young 18 years old then.  I'm 67 now, a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... school as part of a club you were in? Or one of those hands-on engineering ... opportunity to practice right then and there in a situation that’s fully

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Suddenly she is in a magical, technicolour world Last week, MIT’s Professor ... ’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics ... involve pretty colours (always a plus in my books), but the prize was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... , Saturday was just the end of a week-long process. Early in the week, Linsey ... furniture and drove to Walmart and went to meetings. A few days in, I pulled

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is ... up a number of firsts. Raised in Baltimore by a single mother who ... give birth. The baby is a first in her own right—the first daughter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on-campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  brother, Ryan (who insists on being called a pre-teen). There are very few ... the Oregon Ducks. He is hilarious. He is a ham. He owns me at ... 's "Can I play in the Simmons ball pit????" (Yes, my dorm has a ball pit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  WOW CPW IS HAPPENING IN TWO DAYS!!! APPARENTLY IT IS ALSO SOMETIMES ... repeated in another section below, is: "As an LA native, please bring some warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... Stanford laundry is free but printing costs money, while at MIT printing is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are ... MIT felt like a long shot in general. On the day of decisions, I woke up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... floor in a quick-paced rhythm. He is juggling. "You know juggling is ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  . What all these songs have in common is a harsh edge and a sense of ... , glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  this fall, not because of administration (who is actually doing a pretty ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic ... I get a little scared of who I am as a blogger. I get scared that this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  thunderstorm has brought in the day, because everything is so still except for ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days ... Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009