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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  food-related items, another year paper hats. this year, each player has ... stagnates, to push the game onwards. did i say weeks? yes, weeks. 2E assassins ... tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  multiple bottles/cans of caffeine. I ended up taking 384 pictures of CPW, so ... 'll tip my hat to you and look forward to the end result. On Sunday we find ... the title, some days I'm just more creative than others. Today isn't one

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  of how far I've come. I remember the sleepless nights in high school ... years, but I never ended up any good at it. I took guitar lessons for ... trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a ... This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  presidential campaign. I highly recommend this book to anyone- no matter where ... farther from the Internet there's user-generated software like Linux. I don't usually blog about magazine articles here. But I am so, so excited after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... , and ultimately, I broke a little. I ended up with two classes I wanted ... I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  happen, and, at the end of the day, people were fed. I helped accomplish ... the high notes, and so I sang quietly, unsure of myself. Now, I sing ... -to-sibling chat about our parents. My sister is still in high school, and I wondered

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  year of high school where I’ll be single (probably. I highly doubt I ... a total bop. As someone who felt like a total weirdo in high school, I ... ://youtu.be/BE7vBk_zLA4 “Cop Car” by Mitski: Biiiiiiig spooky vibes. I love music

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for ... This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  all -- Z. H. asked, Do you read the essays? The answer is no, I have ... grade to a B on the condition that I get a B or higher by the end of the ... by the end of this year I will have had all the pre-college math I need

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin ... an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a rich man. The mysterious rich man (who never shows his face) instructs

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could ... other high school students, but in the end learning to motivate yourself ... morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on my mind since school started two weeks ago. I had just finished my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of ... are extra credit. I am mixing up the end of my undergraduate ... my closest friends from high school, Liz Z. A collection of articles

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  favorite of all. I read it over and over and celebrated when an old man I met ... was so shy my high school classmates thought I didn't speak English, and ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  was especially perfect, though, because I also ended up seeing The ... Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  end of the block, I dashed into Toscanini's, nearly knocked over a few ... “It'll be over before sunrise.” The first time I heard it, midnight ... Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared

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

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  how much skin will be left on his knees at the end? I remember standing ... yelled over to me. Man: Hey dude...you all right?   Me: I think so. Man: What happened dude? Me: ...well, I guess you turned, and I kept

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  watched Man of Steel. I had some nice talks with my parents and some bonding ... “This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they ... Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  never attended Middletown High School North. I would have- I attended its ... High School." I mean, really. What, do they call it "High Tech" for short ... say, not as I do. This was a stupid way to pick a high school, and would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008