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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with ... game, which crops to plant, and generally how to survive on the terrain ... big feast together to celebrate a successful harvest. But every story

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  come. I've worked hard to rebuild bridges and heal old wounds. We ... sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... […][/annotation] To: frens <3   Oh, take this veil from off my eyes My

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  ) didn’t need to be paired. So I downloaded some weights for Style ... forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  for our class picture and is where we will come together once again to ... to Boston and the outside world. Behind the bridge, a boat representing ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , not Harvard"]Harvard Bridge[/annotation] and continue onwards to Trader ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Boylston Street Closer to east campus – 1 mile walk across the bridge. I stop ... intimidating, so I have put together a complete guide of all groceries near MIT ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• 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. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... take me out to the ball game or casey at the bat. =p The uber

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

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a Class 1 storm), the foreboding weather phenomenon that caused Boston to ... measure. In response to this announcement, MIT officially closed at 3pm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  gaming community. I took a particular liking to rogue-likes, playing and ... for the server and often get together to get into their "roles." It ... 'm horrendous at the game, but I've been trying to watch a lot of streamers play

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  together to play all sorts of games and hang out. There was golf, basketball ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet ... relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... to work" says Sam '07 Club Passim -- live music Grendel's Den -- the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead, I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... ... Anonymous asked, "are you definitely coming to South Miami, FL on Sept 11 then ... school doesn't have one) but am planning to take the exam?" Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  "), we admitted 1715 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... (while we admissions officers continue to read, read, read).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  staff to get together and catch up. And before that, I was sleeping off last night's IM hockey game:   November 1, 11pm MIT Intramural C ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person ... was working for the Game Lab? I don't know, but I'm excited to be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019